Pros and cons of six SQL table tools
This article shows how to use 6 SQL table-based tools to solve the same problem, and gives the pros and cons of each.
TSQL Challenge 72 - Calculate the Payroll Hours of Employees
This challenge invites you to solve a payroll challenge which requires to calculate the number of hours employee worked in a week.
Administrating SQL Server Integration Services - Planning, Documenting and Troubleshooting
SQL Server Integration Services is an essential component of SQL Server, and designed to perform a variety of routine and occasional tasks. It majors on ETL tasks and for administrative jobs across servers. The DBA needs also to be aware of their role in optimising SSIS by planning, trouble-shooting, optimising performance, and in documenting installations.
All I want for Christmas
This Friday before Christmas, Steve Jones has a fun poll. What would you like for Christmas? Any fun, interesting, fascinating tech toys?
Intersect, Except, Union, All and Any
Longtime author and expert DBA David Poole examines a few T-SQL commands that he has never used. Learn how some of these little used T-SQL items function and see if they work for you.
Window Functions in SQL Server: Part 2 - The Frame
Fabiano Amorim continues his introduction to SQL Server's implementation of the window functions by giving a history of what got implemented and when, and explaining the concept of the 'Frame' in a window function, with plenty of examples.
Display Complex Hierarchical Data with Server-Side Pagination
This article presents an approach to perform server-side pagination and display complex hierarchical data in Reporting Services.
GOTO and T-SQL
Today we have a guest editorial from Phil Factor as Steve is on vacation. This piece looks at the complaints against GOTO and whether they are valid.
Blogs
Accept the no and move on
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Don’t Fight with AI
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I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
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How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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