When sp_HelpText is not so helpful!
A note of caution on the use of sp_helptext to script out objects.
2017-09-25
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2017-09-22
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SQL Data Aggregation Aggravation
When we have to deal with and store a lot of data, it makes sense to aggregate it so that we store only the information we actually need. If we get this right, this works well, but the design of the system takes care and thought because the problems can be subtle and various. Joe Celko describes some of the ways that things can go wrong and end up providing incorrect, inaccurate or misleading results.
2017-09-12
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Statistics in SQL: The Mann–Whitney U test
Phil Factor shows how to use the Mann-Whitney U test in SQL to to find out whether two samples come from the same distribution.
2017-09-04
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What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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