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SQL SERVER – Solution – Puzzle – SELECT * vs SELECT COUNT(*)
Earlier I have published Puzzle Why SELECT * throws an error but SELECT COUNT(*) does not. This question have received many interesting comments. Let us go over few of the answers, which are valid....
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SQL SERVER – Database Worst Practices – New Town and New Job and New Disasters
This blog post is written in response to the T-SQL Tuesday hosted by Amit Banerjee. I know Amit personally and very big fan of his community activities. I read his blog, read his comments, follow his...
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SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Efficient...
Answer simple quiz at the end of the blog post and - Every day one winner from India will get Joes 2 Pros Volume 1. Every day one winner from United States will get Joes 2 Pros Volume 1. Query Writing...
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SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Many to Many...
Answer simple quiz at the end of the blog post and - Every day one winner from India will get Joes 2 Pros Volume 2. Every day one winner from United States will get Joes 2 Pros Volume 2. Many to Many...
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SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – System and...
Answer simple quiz at the end of the blog post and - Every day one winner from India will get Joes 2 Pros Volume 3. Every day one winner from United States will get Joes 2 Pros Volume 3. System and...
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SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – Easy...
Answer simple quiz at the end of the blog post and - Every day one winner from India will get Joes 2 Pros Volume 4. Every day one winner from United States will get Joes 2 Pros Volume 4. Using Check...
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SQL SERVER – 2012 – Summary of All the Analytic Functions – MSDN and...
SQL Server 2012 (RC0 Available here) has introduced new analytic functions. These functions were long awaited and I am glad that they are now here. Before when any of this function was needed, people...
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SQL SERVER – Using expressor Composite Types to Enforce Business Rules
One of the features that distinguish the expressor Data Integration Platform from other products in the data integration space is its concept of composite types, which provide an effective and easily...
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SQL SERVER – Bad Practice of Using Keywords as an Object Name – Avoid Using...
Madhivanan is SQL Server MVP and very talented SQL expert. Here is one of the nugget he shared on Just Learned. He shared a tip where there were two interesting point to learn. Do not use keywords as...
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SQL SERVER – Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays – Database Properties –...
First of all Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everybody. I wish you best holiday season. In today’s blog post – I am sharing very small question received by one of the reader. Though simple...
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SQL SERVER – Identifying guest User using Policy Based Management
If you are following my recent blog posts, you may have noticed that I’ve been writing a lot about Guest User in SQL Server. Here are all the blog posts which I have written on this subject: SQL SERVER...
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SQLAuthority News – Select the Best SQL in Sixty Seconds Episode – Help us...
It has been more than 3 months since we have started experimenting with a new concept in SQL in Sixty Seconds. Every Wednesday, we putt a fresh new interesting concept out via video. Rick Morelan,...
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SQL SERVER – SmallDateTime and Precision – A Continuous Confusion
Some kinds of confusion never go away. Here is one of the ancient confusing things in SQL. The precision of the SmallDateTime is one concept that confuses a lot of people, proven by the many messages I...
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SQL SERVER – A Puzzle – Swap Value of Column Without Case Statement
For the last few weeks, I have been doing Friday Puzzles and I am really loving it. Yesterday I received a very interesting question by Navneet Chaurasia on Facebook Page. He was asked this question in...
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SQL SERVER – Find Column Used in Stored Procedure – Search Stored Procedure...
Place: Any Developer Shop Scenario: A developer wants to drop a column from a table Time: Any Day – usually right before developer wants to go home The developer rushes to the manager and following...
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SQL SERVER – Sends backups to a Network Folder, FTP Server, Dropbox, Google...
Let me tell you about one of the most useful SQL tools that every DBA should use – it is SQLBackupAndFTP. I have been using this tool since 2009 – and it is the first program I install on a SQL server....
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SQL SERVER – Shard No More – An Innovative Look at Distributed Peer-to-peer...
There is no doubt that SQL databases play an important role in modern applications. In an ideal world, a single database can handle hundreds of incoming connections from multiple clients and scale to...
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SQL SERVER – Primary Key and NonClustered Index in Simple Words
I have been writing a weekly round up from my blog where I go over last six years of blog posts and pick the best posts from the pasts. While I do this, there are two major place where I focus 1) If...
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