Today’s blog post is about SQL Agent Job and Backslash. I was surprised to see this behavior. Here are the steps to reproduce this behavior.
Puzzle – DELETE Qualified Rows From Multiple Tables – Win USD 1000 Worth Class
Today we are going to see a very simple but brain teaser puzzle. This puzzle is about Deleting Qualified Rows From Multiple Tables.
SQL Puzzle – Correct the Incorrect Query – Win Price Worth USD 1000 – Aggregate and Subquery
It has been a while since we have seen a puzzle so let us do a small puzzle today. Actually, this is a very simple puzzle if you have worked with SQL Server for a while. I got an email from one of the readers from the blog post and he wanted me to correct the following query which he had written. Well, I have been working with SQL Server for over 19 years and I often do not remember the syntax and have to look up online. Here is a very simple puzzle for you which involves Aggregate and Subquery.
SQL SERVER – Relating Unrelated Tables – A Question from Reader
I often get emails from my blog readers asking various types of questions. Here is one of the interesting questions from a reader about Relating Unrelated Tables. Let us go over it in detail.
Puzzle – Datatime to DateTime2 Conversation in SQL Server 2017
Earlier last week, I was presenting various questions about SQL Server 2017 at PASS in Seattle. However, during one of the session, I was fortunate to meet SQL Server Expert Christopher Savage. He shared a very interesting puzzle with me. I have been trying to solve the puzzle for a while, but I have no answer for it. Let us see the puzzle about DateTime2 Conversion in SQL Server 2017.
SQL SERVER – Puzzle – Why Such a Complicated Execution Plan for a Single Row, Single Table Query?
It has been awhile since I asked any puzzle on SQLAuthority.com, Let us see a very simple puzzle today which involves execution plan as well.
SQL SERVER – SSMS 17.7 Observation – Two Miscellaneous Category in Database Property Options
First of all this observation is only applicable if you are using SSMS 17.7 build. It was very interesting to me that I was able to find two Miscellaneous categories in Database Property Option for SQL Server. Please note the version of SQL Server which I have connected to SSMS 17.7 is also SQL Server 2017. If you try following on any other SSMS version you may not get the same results.