Helpful Advice?
This editorial was originally published on Feb 5, 2007 and is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. Is this the advice you'd give, or take, in a DR situation? Steve thinks it's not.
2011-11-21
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Editorials
RC0
This week saw the release of RC2 of SQL Server 2012 and marks an important milestone towards the next release of SQL Server.
2011-11-21
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What's Your Title?
A career based poll this Friday has Steve Jones asking what your title is, or maybe what you think it should be given the work that you do.
2011-11-18
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More SQL Injection
Why are sites still being hit by SQL Injection on a large scale? Steve Jones talks about a recent large scale attack that affected over a million sites.
2011-11-17
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Do You Want to be a DBA in Space?
With the DBA in Space contest ending this week, Steve Jones has some thoughts on the contest, and what he'd do if he were to win.
2011-11-16
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Network Databases? Is it time to change?
Today Steve responds to a blog post from Microsoft that talks about the viability of placing our database files on network shares.
2011-11-15
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Don't Criticize Code
For anyone eager for a long-term career in IT Development, humility and tact are probably more important habits to acquire than demon coding-skills. Phil Factor explains why.
2011-11-14
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The Industry Problem
We have less people studying technical subjects and an apparent shortage of technical talent in the IT field. Steve Jones thinks we might have an industry wide problem.
2011-11-14
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First Impressions
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that examines the first impressions that you create when you meet someone.
2011-11-11
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License By Core
Microsoft recently announced changes in the licensing for SQL Server 2012 and Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the topic.
2011-11-09
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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
Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in SQL Server 2025: Fixing the Kitchen-Sink Search Procedure
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optional Parameter Plan Optimization in...
AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Experience Gap that we...
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