I am headed to Code Camp in Redmond WA today. I ended up with 3 sessions that I will be presenting, and I am really looking forward to the day. I am looking forward to attending the Accelerating your Development Workflow presentation by Ian Davis. Here is what I am presenting… What’s New in TSQL 2012 This is the first time that …
SQL Saturday 166 in Olympia WA on November 10th was announced, and that one is close enough to drive to. I have submitted 2 sessions for this event. What’s New in TSQL 2012 By November, this with be the fourth or fifth time presenting this one. Its going to be a lot of fun working with the new features …
Here are the sessions that I will be presenting at Code Camp in two weeks.. What’s New in TSQL 2012 This is the first time that I will be presenting this one. Its going to be a lot of fun working with the new features in TSQL 2012. Unleashing Common Table Expressions in SQL Server This will be about the …
Today I started the day early with a great presentation for the SQL Lunch UK group on Common Table Expressions. For those who attended the presentation here is the Zip file with the Powerpoint and the SQL code from the demo. Feel free to download it and learn from it. CTE_SQL_LUNCH_UK_May_2012.zip Here are a few links to some of …
On May 8th at 4:30am (Lunchtime UK) I will be presenting my Unleashing Common Table Expressions in an online webcast type presentation. I am looking forward to it. I have tuned it up a bit since the last time I presented it at SQL Saturday in Vancouver Canada.
The question came up as to how do I parse a query string using TSQL. So here you go, using a common table expression, and basing this on a similar function to what I put together yesterday for split. which produces this output. A quick and easy way to parse a query string in TSQL using a CTE.
One of the common questions that comes up in my CTE class/presentation asks can you use the CTE inside of a function or stored procedure. The answer is yes, but today I came across another question, how can I split a string (varchar) into rows. I did some searching but didn’t find quite what I was looking for. I did …
Its about time, MySQL has had a feature LIMIT which is similar to the usage of OFFSET and FETCH for years. Now in SQL Server 2012 Microsoft introduces OFFSET and FETCH. The OFFSET and FETCH functionality is used to achieve data paging server side in TSQL. Thing of a page like your typical search results where you are shown the …
One of the common questions that I get asked after my Unleashing CTE Presentation is “Can we use CTEs in SSRS reports?” The answer is YES, Common Table Expressions work great in SSRS reports, one of my favorite ways of cleaning up some of those big ugly SSRS report queries is to use CTEs.
I spent the day today at SQL Saturday in Vancouver BC. I met some fabulous SQL Server professionals, and presented 2 sessions. The first Session was on Unleashing Common Table Expressions in SQL Server. This was the second time that I presented this one, the first was at a SQL Saturday, the first time was SQL Saturday 108 in …