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How to Avoid Conditional JOINs in T-SQL
Relational databases go out of their way to execute SQL, however bad the crimes against Codd and relational theory within the query might be. The 'conditional join' can be executed, but at great cost. As always, it is much better to sit back and restate the problem in a set-based way - Dwain Camps explains.
2015-10-02
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Wildcard Searches
Using wildcard to find patterns in strings going from the basics to some more complicated conditions.
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The New Database CheckDB
I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
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