The Oscars
As Steve Jones heads off for holiday, he asks a Friday poll question that should distract you from work for a few minutes.
The Oscars
As Steve Jones heads off for holiday, he asks a Friday poll question that should distract you from work for a few minutes.
Earning Credit
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
Sample Chapter from Murach's SQL Server 2008 for Developers
Chapter 3 from Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers shows you how to retrieve data from a database table. In the process, you’ll master the basic skills that you’ll use in coding almost any SELECT statement, no matter how complex. At that point, you’ll be ready to learn how to code joins, summary queries, subqueries, and action queries, and then move on to working with server-side features like cursors and stored procedures.
Celebration
Steve Jones reminisces a bit and comments on reaching one million members in the community.
Celebration
Steve Jones reminisces a bit and comments on reaching one million members in the community.
Celebration
Steve Jones reminisces a bit and comments on reaching one million members in the community.
Creating Hierarchical Data Structure Mashups
You can use SQL to connect or "mash-up" hierarchical structures, joining them at or below the root to create larger queryable hierarchical structures.
Using CROSS JOIN queries to find records out of sequence
This topic is nothing new, but well worth revisiting for those who have not used CROSS JOINS. You may have faced a problem where you need to compare historical records for a particular set of records to ensure that records have been saved in the correct order.
Blogs
Where Is My SQL Agent? Running Scheduled Jobs Against Azure SQL Database
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AgentDBA vs Critical SQL Server
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Finally Cleaning Up Dropbox: Moving Almost a TB to Google Drive with rclone
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I’ve had a Dropbox account for years. Like a lot of people, I started...
Forums
identity increments by 10,000 when it was supposed to be 1
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Displaying Money
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The Slow Growing Problems
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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