T-SQL Programming Louis Davidson in T-SQL Programming Optional Code in T-SQL Scripts using SQLCMD When you are writing T-SQL scripts to save away, for example one to create a new database, there are often... 06 March 2023 6 min read
T-SQL Programming Aaron Bertrand in T-SQL Programming Find 40 Problems in this SQL Server Stored Procedure I’ve been at this for a while now, and have a very particular set of rules and coding conventions that... 23 February 2023 21 min read
Learn SQL Server Greg Larsen in Learn SQL Server Using TOP clause in a SELECT statement There might be a time when you might want to return just a few rows of a result set, instead... 06 February 2023 11 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Dealing with the Bits of a Binary Value in SQL Server In this article, I want to talk about a topic that you may never need. The only time I have... 04 December 2022 5 min read
T-SQL Programming Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Converting Data Across Time Zones: An In-Depth Primer If only the entire world used UTC, wouldn’t life be so much easier? We can dream, can’t we? While some... 21 November 2022 27 min read
Learn SQL Server Greg Larsen in Learn SQL Server The Basics of Deleting Data from a SQL Server Table Over time data in SQL Server tables needs to be modified. There are two major different aspects of modifying data:... 07 November 2022 12 min read
Learn SQL Server Greg Larsen in Learn SQL Server The Basics of Updating Data in a SQL Server Table Once data is inserted into a table, data typically needs to be maintained as time goes on. To make changes... 21 October 2022 14 min read
Blogs Louis Davidson in Blogs Generating Repeatable Sets Of Test Rows In order to test graph structures, I needed a large set of random data. In some ways, this data will... 30 September 2022 11 min read
T-SQL Programming Greg Larsen in T-SQL Programming Summarizing data using GROUP BY and HAVING clauses You can summarize data to get counts, averages, sums, and more using GROUP BY in T-SQL queries. Greg Larsen shows... 27 May 2022 11 min read
T-SQL Programming Edward Pollack in T-SQL Programming Getting results using less T-SQL There is usually more than one way to write a query. In this article, Edward Pollack explains a few ways... 27 April 2022 16 min read
T-SQL Programming Greg Larsen in T-SQL Programming The basic T-SQL SELECT statement The SQL language is used across many relational database platforms. Greg Larsen explains the basics of the SELECT statement for... 22 February 2022 10 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Quantifier predicates Predicates in SQL are often complex and difficult to understand. In this article, Joe Celko explains the logic behind a... 27 December 2021 11 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming BETWEEN the two of us BETWEEN can be used in a SQL WHERE clause to filter on a range. Joe Celko explains the history of... 15 November 2021 11 min read
CI/CD Sebastian Meine Liz Baron in CI/CD How to successfully deploy databases with external references Database objects often have references to external databases which makes continuous integration problematic. In this article Liz Baron and Sebastian... 29 September 2021 8 min read
T-SQL Programming Kathi Kellenberger in T-SQL Programming How LAG compares to other techniques LAG pulls a column from another row without a self-join. In this article, Kathi Kellenberger shows how LAG compares to... 07 September 2021 13 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming Data, N-Tiles & Medians Joe Celko takes a look at how SQL Server can do some of the work for you such as calculating... 01 June 2021 14 min read
Editorials Kathi Kellenberger in Editorials What is an ad hoc query? Someone recently asked me which queries are ad hoc in SQL Server. An ad hoc query is a single query... 04 May 2021 4 min read
T-SQL Programming Shel Burkow in T-SQL Programming A data transformation problem in SQL and Scala: Dovetailing declarative solutions Part II In this article, Shel Burkow uses the SQL execution plan from the previous article to write a program in Scala.… 26 March 2021 15 min read
T-SQL Programming Joe Celko in T-SQL Programming What is interpolation? In this article, Joe Celko explains interpolation and covers a bit about the history and what we all did before... 11 March 2021 10 min read
T-SQL Programming Shel Burkow in T-SQL Programming A data transformation problem in SQL and Scala: Dovetailing declarative solutions This article is an interesting approach to solving a data transformation problem in SQL and Scala. Shel Burkow uses a... 22 February 2021 11 min read
