Arshad Ali discusses how to use CTE and the ranking function to access or query data from previous or subsequent rows. He also shows you how to leverage the LEAD and LAG analytics functions to achieve the same result without writing a self-join query using CTE and ranking function
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You created a report that passed three separate values to a stored procedure, simply enough. However, now the user comes back and they want the ability to select multiple values for the report to return data against. Check out this article for a walk-through on how to handle this request.
Nominations open until December 10. The Tribal Awards are back and looking to recognize some of the great contributors to the SQL community. Nominations are now open for 11 different categories, but closing soon so make sure your user group, favorite twitter account, or person who's helped you the most this year is nominated.
Matthew Skelton proposes a way to enable database continuous delivery that isn’t as outlandish as it first appears. What can Conways Law and Microservices tell us about the future of databases and DBAs? Matthew shows us a glimpse.
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Obscure impact of switch EnforceScriptingOptions to scripting a SQL Server database.
Phil Factor on the sort of boring expertise that will help you thrive as a consultant.
Computers aren't necessarily more infallible than humans, and they aren't necessarily even going to make better decisions. We still need humans in the decision process.
Tibor Nagy explains how to find the root cause of SSL encryption configuration problems in Microsoft SQL Server.
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In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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