2022-10-31
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Editorials
Friendship and Your Career
PASS Data Community Summit is coming up like an out of control freight train. Another couple of weeks and it'll be here. I'm excited about it every year and I really hope to see you there. Please, consider this a personal invite to say hi if you see me around. I'm bringing all this up […]
2022-10-29
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2022-10-28
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Cone of Uncertainty
Our design and modeling is often done with some level of uncertainty. Steve has a few guidelines today.
2022-10-26
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2022-10-24
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The Home Password Cracker
Passwords cracked in under an hour using modern hardware have Steve shaking his head.
2022-10-22
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Remote Remote Work
Working remotely can be more than working at home, which Steve thinks helps the work-life balance.
2022-10-21
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The Work of Work
Meeting are work, even though we sometimes don't think of them as a productive part of our job.
2022-10-19
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2022-10-17
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2022-10-14
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Blogs
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...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
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