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June was an exciting month for me with Beta 6 of the Database Health Reports releasing at the beginning of the month, and this being CTE Month at SteveStedman.com to mark the release of my Common Table Expressions book. CTE Month Summary CTE Month postings started with the basics on June 1st, and grew throughout the month to include more …

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Day 15 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today we will be taking a look at data paging with CTE’s in a function. Yesterday we took a look at CTEs for Data Paging, today we will build on what we used yesterday. These queries will be using that database that was set up in a previous posting on the CTE_DEMO …

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Day 14 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today we will be taking a look at data paging with CTE’s and how it compares to the offset and fetch in T-SQL 2012. Now on to CTE Data Paging. These queries will be using that database that was set up in a previous posting on the CTE_DEMO Sample Database, if you haven’t …

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Day 12 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today we will be taking a look at how to use multiple nested CTEs in a query to use up all the memory on your SQL Server. These queries will be using that database that was set up in a previous posting on the CTE_DEMO Sample Database, if you haven’t set up …

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Day 11 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today we will be taking a look at how to use multiple nested CTEs in a query. These queries will be using that database that was set up in a previous posting on the CTE_DEMO Sample Database, if you haven’t set up the sample database, download it and set it up now. Russian …

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Day 10 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today we will be taking a look at how to use multiple CTEs in a query. These queries will be using that database that was set up in a previous posting on the CTE_DEMO Sample Database, if you haven’t set up the sample database, download it and set it up now.   …

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Day 9 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today I will be building on the intro to recursive CTEs from two days ago and on showing how a recursive CTE can be used to calculate information about dates of the year from yesterday. This would be useful if you were trying to build a calendar. These queries will be using that database …

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Day 8 of Common Table Expression Month (June) at SteveStedman.com, today I will be building on the intro to recursive CTEs from yesterday and showing how a recursive CTE can be used to calculate information about dates of the year. This would be useful if you were trying to build a calendar. These queries will be using that database that …

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