Solving the “Running Totals” Problem in SQL Server 2005 with Partitioned Tables
Lynn Pettis gives us a look at a new way to solve a T-SQL problem.
Lynn Pettis gives us a look at a new way to solve a T-SQL problem.
With the start of a new year, Steve Jones gets back to the car updates with a look at winter driving and changes in the car industry.
It can be helpful in ETL operations to know what the distribution of your data is. Brian Knight shows how to use the Data Profiling task in this video.
I have found that I like to generate a script once and roll it out to multiple servers at the same time. SQL Server 2008 Management Studio makes that fairly easy by allowing one window to connect to multiple instances simultaneously
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
This technical note is part of the Building and Deploying Large Scale SQL Server Reporting Services Environments technical note series, which provides general guidance on how to set up, implement, and optimize an enterprise scale-out architecture for your Reporting Services environment. This note provides guidance for Reporting Services in both Microsoft® SQL Server® 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The focus of this technical note is to optimize your Reporting Services architecture for better performance and higher report execution throughput and user loads
New author Greg Bates brings us a few tips for those of you new to being a DBA or without much experience.
How does a DBA go about "pitching" for money for a software tool, or any other resource? And what factors affect the likelihood of success? We all think we know, but could we do this part of the job more effectively?
A RAG pipeline that answers questions in the demo is not the same thing...
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Which number will the COUNT() return after executing the following statements:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #test; CREATE TABLE #test (id INT) INSERT INTO #test (id) SELECT * FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 3) AS gs ; ALTER TABLE #test ADD flag BIT CONSTRAINT DF_#test_flag DEFAULT 0; go UPDATE #test SET flag = 0 WHERE id = 1 UPDATE #test SET flag = 1 WHERE id = 2 INSERT INTO #test (id) VALUES (4) SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #test AS t WHERE flag = 0See possible answers