Many times people come across the Coalesce function and think that it is just a more powerful form of ISNULL. In actuality, I have found it to be one of the most useful functions with the least documentation. In this tip, I will show you the basic use of Coalesce and also some features you probably never new existed.
Two longtime members of the SQLServerCentral.com community received the well-deserved MVP status this week. Congratulate Jeff Moden and Michael Coles.
The problem arises when the hierarchy level increases as SQL Server is limited to 32 levels of recursion. We need a better way to implement recursive queries in SQL Server 2005. How do we do it?
This article is Part 2 in the series which explores the options available in SQL Server 2005 for Slowly Changing Dimensions
Do you deal with data or information? Do you know the difference and are you transforming one into the other. Steve Jones comments on the state of many companies' data.
Continuing on with his series on building a game in SQL Server, Steve Fibich talks about some more of the tables and the data they contain.
When a team is developing a database application, it is a mistake to believe that deployment is a simple task. It isn’t. It has to be planned, and scripted. Alexander Karmanov describes many of the problems you’re likely to meet, and provides an example solution that aims to save the DBA from the nightmare complexity of an unplanned deployment.
Does your IT organization bring value to your company? Steve Jones takes a look at some of the ways you can do this.
Does your IT organization bring value to your company? Steve Jones takes a look at some of the ways you can do this.
Does your IT organization bring value to your company? Steve Jones takes a look at some of the ways you can do this.
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Hello , I would like to run a stored procedure on a secondary replica...
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I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers