T-SQL Tips and Tricks
In this article learn some TSQL tips and tricks working with CTEs, UPDATES, Window Functions, Duplicate Rows, Tally Tables and Concatenating string values in SQL Server
2021-03-10
TSQL
Getting started with the SQL MERGE statement
This article is focused on beginners who have already started writing SQL queries and are now diving deep towards more data processing and complex queries in SQL. When we talk about data processing, an important concept that comes to our mind is performing ETL workloads to a data warehouse. ETL is a very complex topic […]
2021-01-26
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2020-02-27
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Collections
Problem The usage of a collection of integers in some scenarios is considered to be optimal because of the overhead involved by the creation of another user table used just to store numbers, which is the most common solution. What are collections of integers? They are lists or arrays consisting of integers. The number of […]
2020-02-13
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Introduction to PIVOT operator in SQL
Learn how to use the PIVOT operator in SQL in a step-by-step manner.
2020-02-06
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A Self-Tuning Fill Factor Technique for SQL Server – Part 2
Introduction Fill Factor is a parameter most of us have ignored because there is no definitive way to calculate what the correct value should be. Part 1 of this series describes a new technique to dynamically determine index fill factors for all indexes within a database. Part 2 covers an analysis of the data collection […]
2019-08-27
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #137–Notebook Uses
By Steve Jones
It’s actually my month to host T-SQL Tuesday, and I came up with the...
Daily Coping 13 Apr 2021
By Steve Jones
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to...
Converting a SQL Server Docker image to a WSL2 Distribution
Windows Subsystem for Linux is probably my favourite feature of Windows 10. It gives...
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connect to mdf file of localDB
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