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Basic Checks on a New AWS RDS SQL Server
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Amazon RDS - Configuring a Connection to a SQL Server Instance
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Amazon RDS - Configuring a Connection to a SQL Server Instance
In this article, you will learn how to configure an RDS database for connections from client tools.
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Fixing "The Distributor has not been installed correctly" Error with AWS
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Create a SQL Server PolyBase Scale-out Group Using Amazon Web Services
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This article explains how to get started with PostgreSQL on AWS.
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Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers