Creating Subtotals and Totals in Aggregated Queries
Grouping Sets are an effective way to add subtotals to aggregated queries. T His article explains how.
2020-09-25 (first published: 2018-09-06)
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Query Answers with SQL Server
Displaying Hierarchical Data
Producing hierarchies from SQL tables can necessitate joining a table to itself. This article will explain how you can do this.
2020-03-06 (first published: 2018-08-30)
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Count the Number of Weekend Days between Two Dates
Handling weekends can be tricky in SQL. This article shows you how to Count the Number of Weekend Days between Two Dates
2020-10-16 (first published: 2018-08-23)
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Display Median Values
DO you know how to display median values from a Dataset? In this short article you will use windowing functions to do this
2018-07-26
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Segment Data into Deciles
This short article shows a simple example of how to segment data into deciles
2018-07-19
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Generating Completely Random Sample Output from a Dataset
This short article shows a simple example of how to generate completely random sample output from a Dataset
2018-07-12
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Creating Compound Interest Calculations in SQL
This is the first article in a short series of SQL Server query challenges to test and expand your SQL Server querying skills
2018-07-05
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The Query Answers with SQL Server Series
A series of articles based on the Query Answers with SQL Server book.
2018-06-29
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RE: Best Backup Strategy
Three things matter most overall. Database size and the type of disks you are using and whether o not your backupos go directly to tape or disk. First off, backups to disk are superior in speed than to tape. On the size question, if the database is 30 Gb or less then SQL maintenance plans are […]
2005-04-13
RE: Executing bcp from within stored proc causes locking/blocking
Doug, Am going to pull the query out and see what I can do about indexes. Prestatie table contains about 700.000 records and joins to PrestatieHistoriek which contains about 900.000 records and growing at about 100.000 a month (2 months in production now). What worries me a bit is that the procedure executes reasonably fast […]
2005-04-08
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