Display data by fiscal year instead of calendar year
This article provides a simple solution to display any data by fiscal year instead of calendar year.
Stupid Interviewer Tricks
Today's editorial was originally published on Feb 7, 2008. It is being re-published as Steve is on vacation.
What do you do when the interviewer is obviously wrong? Steve Jones offers a perspective.
Optimizing tempdb configuration with SQL Server 2012 Extended Events
One of the most obvious bottlenecks in the performance of tempdb is caused by PAGELATCH, in-memory latch contention on the allocation bitmap of each data file used. We can use one of the rules-of-thumb to choose what should be roughly the best number of files, but how then do you check to see whether you've got it right for your data and workload?
Code Reviews Must Be Brutally Honest
Today we have a guest editorial from Hakim Ali. Today Akim talks about why holding back out of politeness in code reviews may be a self-defeating practice.
Pushing SQL Alerts to Remote Server using PowerShell 2 and T-SQL
Managing log files in a large enterprise environment can be an overwhelming task. In this article I will show you how to automate some of the work using SQL Alerts and Powershell 2.0
Windows Server 2012, ReFS and No SQL Server
ReFS, the new file system with Windows Server 2012, should be good news, but its apparent lack of support for SQL Server is a serious concerned for Phil Factor.
How to Audit Login Changes on a SQL Server
I've been charged with coming up with a quick solution to audit login changes on my SQL Servers. However, there's no budget so I'm going to have to come up with basic scripts and the like to do the work. Is this tip we cover a solution for you to audit login changes.
Targeted Index Performance Improvements
This article identifies which indexes are used when T-SQL code runs, and proposes ways of improving these targeted indexes, leading to better performing code.
RegexClean Transformation
Use the power of regular expressions to cleanse your data right there inside the Data Flow. This transformation includes a full user interface for simple configuration, as well as advanced features such as error output configuration. Two regular expressions are used, a match expression and a replace expression. The transformation is designed around the named capture groups or match groups, and even supports multiple expressions.
No Limits
There are some very interesting projects being performed with cloud services. Steve Jones talks about a few and the new computing without limits claim from Google.
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Displaying Money
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Question of the Day
Displaying Money
I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
DECLARE @Amount MONEY; SET @Amount = '?1500'; SELECT CAST( @Amount AS VARCHAR(30)) AS EurosSee possible answers