New Cloud Licensing Limits
New licensing rules are coming for using your SQL Server licenses in the cloud.
2022-09-03
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Editorials
Potholes in the Road of Progress
Phil Factor looks at some technologists more famous for thwarting progress than for their own creations.
2022-09-02 (first published: 2017-07-17)
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Unlimited PTO
A guest editorial from Andy Warren looking at the unlimited amount of vacation time from his company.
2022-08-31 (first published: 2017-07-12)
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Learning through Puzzles
Different people respond to different types of learning techniques. Maybe a puzzle is the way that you learn.
2022-08-29 (first published: 2017-08-04)
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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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2022-08-26 (first published: 2017-08-08)
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Looking Back
Today Steve talks about retrospectives and how we learn and grow as software professionals.
2022-08-24 (first published: 2020-03-30)
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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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The Case for Patching
Recently I was testing a feature in SQL Server on 2017 and 2019. There was supposed to be an improvement across versions, but I didn't see it. Then I realized that I was on SQL Server 2019 CU 2 on my laptop, and the current CU is 17. I took a few minutes to download […]
2022-08-20
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How Hard is Kubernetes?
Mercedes has taken advantage of containers and Kubernetes to build knowledge in their staff. This investment helps them adapt and change their technology to meet the needs of the business.
2022-08-19
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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