Why is usefull stuff as this deprecated? Everyone is talking about normalisation, but I still have to write the same code in a CHECK CONSTRAINT again and again and again,...

Yes, a procedure RUNs and COMPILES with a separat scope / copy of the #temp table. But (as written) there seems to be a bug in the parser / syntax...

As long as 3rd party tools as SQL Prompt or SSMS Boost does not support SOS, it is unlikely, that I would use it regularly, except it implements all the...

Our database uses triggers on many databases. Some time ago, when the developers had to run a special INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE, which should not trigger the trigger :-), the always disabled the...

Nice article, but instead of using a slow multiline table value function, you should better use the well tested and fast inline table value function DelimitedSplit8K (except your...

Short question: I admit, that I do not work with R, but why should anyone else really wants to do this "graphical" plotting in R, while there are much more...

How did you get your result?
I used the following query and get other numbers:
WITH myBeers (<see CTE in the question> )
SELECT ISNULL(bt.OwedTo, bb.OwedBy) who, SUM(bt.Beer)...

To be honest, I did not even understand the question and felt like a newbie...

I'd prefer to use
FIRST_VALUE(pts) OVER (Partition by Team ORDER BY Year ROWS BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW)
since this performs better (does not spill to...

I guess they needed the 29 days to remove those silly clause, that everybody needs a vacuum cleaner in the basement, which was added by me in my youth while...

I doubt, that this will be fast. It does not use an explicit cursor, but practically does the same (or something worser) with its while loop.

If someone really...

Wouldn't the minimal privileges be the NTFS permissions to delete the ERRORLOG.? files? Sure - you can't replace / modify the current ERRORLOG file (SQL Server holds its tumbs on...

I wonder, that the only connect item I found for a column based MIN/MAX (similar to Oracle's LEAST()/GREATEST()) got only 4 quotes since last year (https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback/Details/3085573).

Maybe someone...

Why do you not use the build in ROUND function?
It takes three parameters:
- the value
- the rounding length (use negative numbers to round to a power...

my apology for the confusion - I tested it only on SQL 2014 (since I was to lazy to set up a new 2016 server just for testing and did...