Day 1 at SQLPASS Summit 2009 in Seattle, told mostly in photos: the city tour, registration, sessions and the SQL friends I met along the way.
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FIRST_VALUE IGNORE NULLS: Find the First Available Value
FIRST_VALUE IGNORE NULLS selects the first present value through the current row. Preserve source rows and distinguish first from latest.
SQL Authority News – Advanced T-SQL with Itzik Ben-Gan – Solid Quality Mentors
My review of the Advanced T-SQL course with Itzik Ben-Gan: I had taught a similar course in India, yet I learned a lot of new things in five days.
Preventing Overlapping Date Ranges in a Table
Detect overlapping date ranges with joins and window queries, use half-open endpoints, and enforce the rule with a multirow trigger.
geometry STCentroid: The Geometric Center Is Not an Interior Promise
geometry STCentroid returns a polygon’s geometric center, but that point is not a promise of interior placement. I keep the center calculation separate from an interior test. A holed region makes that distinction visible.
CDC Cleanup and Capture Jobs: Keeping the Log and Change Tables Small
Keep CDC cleanup and capture jobs healthy by checking log reuse, job settings, retention, polling, and a stopped-job alert.
SQL SERVER – Tuning the Performance of Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008
Change Data Capture records changes without triggers or schema changes. Here are my notes on tuning the performance of Change Data Capture in SQL Server 2008.
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