Top vs. Max
The company I work for has a very well defined need for versioned data. In a lot of instances, we don’t do updates, we do inserts. That means that you have to have mechanisms for storing the data that...
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I just received word from Rachel Hawley over at RedGate that SQL Data Generator has been released. I’ve been using the beta over the last few months and I’ve found it incredibly useful for setting up...
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Because I do. I’m working on a set of tests for an article comparing TOP, MAX & ROW_NUMBER. I have a simple data structure and I need a bunch of data in order to create my tests. I wanted that data...
View ArticleView vs. Table Valued Function vs. Multi-Statement Table Valued Function
About five years ago, I was checking an app before it went to production. I hadn’t seen the app before then and a junior dba had worked with the developers designing and building the app. It didn’t use...
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