2020-12-12
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Editorials
Reflections
Today is a day for reflections in Steve's life, looking back at the incredible year of 2020.
2020-12-11
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Data Sovereignty Issues
As legal requirements grow and change, cloud computing might require a new consideration: where we physically store data.
2020-12-10
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Is there a Difference in Virtual Events?
Steve wonders if any of you see much of a difference between any of the virtual events taking place today.
2020-12-09
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Practice Your Skills with the Advent of Code
The annual Advent of Code challenge is underway, and you can use it to help grow your career.
2020-12-08
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Seeking Growth
Today Steve notes that we often don't have all the knowledge or information we need, but we can work to acquire it.
2020-12-07
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A Technology Collapse
Today Steve looks at legacy systems and the challenges they pose as we try to adapt them to new requirements.
2020-12-05
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Your Favorite IDE
SSMS is, well, it's what we mostly have from Microsoft. It's been around a long time, but it is getting regularly released. There are new versions about every quarter, and there are bug fixes and minor enhancements. Azure Data Studio appears to be where Microsoft would like most of us to move, but I, and […]
2020-12-04
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Catching Minor Issues
Can you catch minor code changes that might cause issues? Steve advocates for more testing to ensure you can.
2020-12-03
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Completely Encrypted Data
Do we care or worry if our databases need to handle encrypted data? Steve has a few thoughts about why we may or may not be concerned.
2020-12-02
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Blogs
A Last Minute Trip to the EU
By Steve Jones
My life has some crazy travel stretches for sure. Between speaking, office visits, customer...
Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with...
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
Forums
Server-Level Table sizes
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Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
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Question of the Day
ORDER BY alias
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