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Tag Archives: T-SQL
FizzBuzz–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. This is also a part of a basic series on git and how to use it. There’s been a … Continue reading
Move a Stored Procedure to a New Schema–SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. One of the things I needed to do recently was move an object. I was testing the WideWorldImporters database … Continue reading
A Busy Few Years
Last week on Twitter, a friend mentioned they were submitting to the PASS Summit and went through their previous speaking engagements. This person noted they had done over 40 talks in the last few years, which is a lot. I … Continue reading
Limiting the Max–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I was chatting with someone the other day about MAX() and how it can work within a set of … Continue reading
Watch Your DataTypes in Aggregates–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I’ve got a database of NBA statistics with data like this for players. I downloaded a CSV and loaded … Continue reading
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Implicit Time Conversions – #SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I was trying to work with times recently and needed to get the current time. I thought, well, Getdate(), … Continue reading
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Tagged SQLNewBlogger, syndicated, T-SQL
Writing the Correct Query is Important
There’s a saying in the data world: garbage in, garbage out. We use that when we can’t get good information from our database because the data we’ve stored isn’t as useful as we would like. That’s a problem, and it’s … Continue reading
Quick Prompt Tips–Custom Procedure Templates
One of the things that I often do is create stored procedures. The syntax for doing so is simple, but it has a number of items that need to be included. SQL Prompt makes this much quicker with the “cp” … Continue reading
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Be Careful of Your Create Stored Procedure Batch
I was rehearsing a demo with someone recently and we had some stored procedure code that looked like this: CREATE PROCEDURE UpdateEmpID @empid INT AS BEGIN UPDATE dbo.Employees SET empid = 3 WHERE empid = @empid ; END However, this … Continue reading
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Finally, Create or Alter
There are lots of reasons to upgrade to SQL Server 2016, but this is the one for me. We finally get a CREATE OR ALTER statement in T-SQL. This not only makes lots of code easier to write, it means … Continue reading
