The Credit Debate
As databases grow, we store more and more types of data. This Friday's poll asks what types of data you don't want to store.
The Credit Debate
As databases grow, we store more and more types of data. This Friday's poll asks what types of data you don't want to store.
A Refresher on Joins
Knowing the various types of joins can greatly expand your T-SQL skills. Jambu Krishnamurthy brings us a refresher article on the various types of joins and how to write them.
Bad Automation
Coming up with ways to do things automatically with software can be a boon to productivity, but not every idea is a good one.
Interview with Chuck Kelley - Part I
An interview with a data warehousing expert Chuck Kelley with some views about the careers in data warehousing.
XML Workshop XVII - Writing a LOOP to process XML elements in TSQL
Jacob Sebastian brings a little more complexity to working with XML documents. Here we learn how to iterate through a document and use each node and perform some action on each one.
Data Comparison with Data Dude
In this article Dinesh Priyankara shows how Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals can be used to perform data comparison.
Social Software
More and more companies are looking to use social software, like Facebook, to link employees, but is this a good thing?
Social Software
More and more companies are looking to use social software, like Facebook, to link employees, but is this a good thing?
Social Software
More and more companies are looking to use social software, like Facebook, to link employees, but is this a good thing?
Blogs
Prime Day Recommendations
By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
Fabric for Operational Reporting & SQL Endpoint Trap
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
Crawl, Walk, Run with Agentic Development of Power BI Assets
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Concurrency and Baseline Control: Level 5 of the Stairway to Reliable Database Deployments
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Spending Time in the Office
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Question of the Day
Multiple Values Inserted
I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers