Having a table of just numbers can be very handy, and it doesn't necessarily take up much space in your database. New author Brandon Galderisi brings us a short tutorial on setting this up.
Phil wonders whether it is time to come up with clear 'best practice' guidelines to cover the use of undocumented routines, and ends up deciding it is a gray area.
This article shows how to use the dm_db_index_usage_stats DMV to identify if an Index is being used on not
A bit of a rant today from Steve Jones after running into a situation that seems to make no sense these days.
A bit of a rant today from Steve Jones after running into a situation that seems to make no sense these days.
A bit of a rant today from Steve Jones after running into a situation that seems to make no sense these days.
SQL Server replication methods include snapshot, merge and transactional replication. Learn how to choose a method, set up SQL replication and avoid the 'gotchas.'
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