The Cost of Function Use In A Where Clause
Discusses Index Selection impact when functions are wrapped around WHERE clause filtering columns
The February Energy Update
Steve Jones takes a look at the world of energy news and a few projects out at the ranch.
Featured Blog: iFTS Transparency – Viewing the words in the index
This next post on Full Text search from MVP Simon Sabin examines how you can examine the details of what your indexes contain.
Locking Your Disk
How important is disk encryption to you? Do you think about all those replicated or copied databases on laptops? Let us know.
Locking Your Disk
How important is disk encryption to you? Do you think about all those replicated or copied databases on laptops? Let us know.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 - Change Data Capture – Part 2
Part 2 of this article illustrates how to enable Change Data Capture on a database, on a table and how SQL Server tracks the data changes of the CDC enabled table.
The Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Ch 7
This is the seventh article in a continuing series, and this installment discusses the tactical layer of the Data Governance Framework.
Blast Off
SQL Server 2008 launches today and there's are additional events all across the country coming up.
Coping with No Column Names in the SSIS OLEDB Data Source Editor
Longtime author Paul Ibison brings us a short look at a common problem in Integration Services: your source has no column names.
New Isolation Levels Available in SQL Server 2005
One of the more mysterious features of SQL Server is isolation levels. Whenever a statement is executed, or a data modification is made, it runs under the influence of an isolation level. Traditionally, SQL Server has supported four isolation levels. In SQL Server 2005, two new isolation levels are introduced.
Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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Creating JSON II
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( N'City':N'Denver' RETURNING JSON) GOSee possible answers