The FOR XML clause in SQL Server causes a lot of difficulty, mainly because it is rather poorly explained in Books-on-Line. We challenged Bob Sheldon to make it seem simple. Here is his sublime response.
Roll Your Own Fuzzy Match / Grouping (Jaro Winkler) - T-SQL
SQLSaturday #17 will be held Aug 1, 2009 in Baton Rouge, LA. Read more about it.
This white paper describes the FILESTREAM feature of SQL Server 2008, which allows storage of and efficient access to BLOB data using a combination of SQL Server 2008 and the NTFS file system. It covers choices for BLOB storage, configuring Windows and SQL Server for using FILESTREAM data, considerations for combining FILESTREAM with other features, and implementation details such as partitioning and performance.
When it comes to securing a system, it's important to understand how it might be attacked. That's what surface area is all about. The surface area is the parts of the system which are exposed. For instance, in the case of a default instance of...
Who do you blame when software fails? Hopefully you don't hire a lawyer before you do. Steve Jones talks about liability and software.
Who do you blame when software fails? Hopefully you don't hire a lawyer before you do. Steve Jones talks about liability and software.
Who do you blame when software fails? Hopefully you don't hire a lawyer before you do. Steve Jones talks about liability and software.
Building random numbers can be challenging for people working in T-SQL. New author Chris Nowicki brings a solution he used to get a random number assigned to each row of a result set.
Are user groups dying out in the age of the Internet? It seemed that way for awhile, but Brad McGehee gives some reasons why you should think about attending a meeting.
Redshift keeps its SYS_* monitoring views for seven days in cluster, which is fine...
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I was updating my session for the Data API Builder (DAB) recently, mostly to...
I am excited to host T-SQL Tuesday for the first time. I want to...
Working with SQL Server can involve more than just writing queries. Understanding database design,...
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I have 3 instances of a brand new long running query that are executing on a SQL Server 2025 instance. Query store is enabled. One of the queries is killed by the administrator, one is cancelled by the user. The other runs to completion. How many rows are in Query Store for this query?
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