2009-10-29
4,838 reads
T-SQL
Methods For Converting a Stored Procedure
An interesting use of T-SQL to run a stored procedure as part of a SELECT statement to get a result set to be used and combined with other tables. From Eli Leiba, learn how you can build a stored procedure into your queries.
2011-04-08 (first published: 2009-10-29)
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2009-10-28
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2009-10-26
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2009-10-21
5,088 reads
2009-10-19
3,635 reads
Causation, Correlation and Crackpots
Joe Celko explores the dangers of muddling correlation and causation, emphasises the importance of determining how likely it is that a correlation has occurred by chance, and gets stuck into calculating correlation coefficients in SQL. Along the way, Joe illustrates the consequences of leaping to the wrong conclusion from correlations with tales of Pop Dread.
2009-10-19
2,136 reads
2009-10-16
5,102 reads
2009-10-14
4,697 reads
Concatenating Rows
Often in database design we store different values in rows to take advantage of a normalized design. However many times we need to combine multiple rows of data into one row for a report of some sort. New author Carl P. Anderson brings us some interesting T-SQL code to accomplish this.
2011-03-04 (first published: 2009-10-14)
150,395 reads
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BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
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select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers