Creating Compound Interest Calculations in SQL

This is the first article in a short series of SQL Server query challenges to test and expand your SQL Server querying skills

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Quick Tips For Debugging Large Stored Procedures

SSMS is a good management tool, but it’s not a good development tool. When you’re writing some simple queries, it’s fine. When you’re writing code with lots of branching, dynamic SQL, temp tables, error handling, and so on… Not so much. Here are some tips Erik darling has put together after a couple years of wrangling the Blitz scripts in the First Responder Kit.

One Million Tables

A quick experiment to create one million tables in a database.

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Friday the 13th

Looking forward to the next few ones of these scary days?

SQL Server Closure Tables

SQL Server has a couple of different ways to represent hierarchies, but they do not allow storing any additional information that is important to the relationship between objects. In this article, Phil Factor explains how to use closure tables to overcome this deficiency.

Using T-SQL to Detect Stock Price Reversals with the RSI

Rick Dobson explains the Relative Strength Index (RSI), and shows how to create a TSQL script that computes the RSI for a stock closing price series.

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