How to Use PowerShell to Set Secure SA Passwords in Bulk
Learn how you can bulk set passwords using PowerShell for all your instances.
2022-09-16 (first published: 2022-08-17)
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Convert UNIX Timestamps to DATE/TIMEs in SQL Server - Part#1
In Unix, a timestamp is a whole number that represents a date and time. Learn how we can convert those correctly in SQL Server.
2022-11-15 (first published: 2022-09-14)
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Things Move Fast
I have several things I’d like to say in the editorial today, but I feel I have to start off with my condolences to the family of Queen Elizabeth II. For that matter, my condolences to the people of Britain. This truly is the end of an era. Things do indeed move fast sometimes. Working […]
2022-09-10
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Developer Optimism
Developers, in general, are very optimistic about the code they write. This is likely one cause of their estimates of the time required being low, as well as the various bugs that slip through because of corner cases that appear for the problem being solved. Often developers think they've considered the various ways this code […]
2022-09-07
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SQL Ledger: Protecting Data in Azure SQL
Learn how you can set up and use Ledger tables in an Azure SQL Database to verify the integrity of your database changes.
2022-09-07
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Pick a Database, any Database…
All sorts of project and organizational analysis go into selecting the right database system for the requirements....or so you'd think.
2022-08-27
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2022-08-24
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When Is Technology Good Enough?
Technology advances, sometimes beyond what we need sometimes. Steve asks when things are good enough.
2022-08-22
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2022-08-17
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DBA to Data Engineer
A title change can come with a salary bump in some cases, but you might need to work to achieve both of those. Steve has a few ideas today.
2022-08-17
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A Last Minute Trip to the EU
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Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
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Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
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There is a table tmp_tab:
CREATE TABLE tmp_tab ( id int, val int );
INSERT INTO tmp_tab VALUES (1, 1), (2, NULL), (3, 3), (4, 4), (5, 5);You want to order the rows ids by the following expression:
ISNULL(val, id) + 1Which of the following queries produces the expected ordering and why? (Select all correct) See possible answers