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 …
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 …
I learned today that several of the sessions that I pitched for Code Camp 2012 have been accepted. Code Camp will be on Saturday June 16th 2012 in Redmond WA. I am not sure why the call it Seattle …
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 …
So far after playing around with SQL Server 2012 there are many new features to SQL. Overall I think my favorites are in the Analytic Functions category. Here is my breakdown of the top 10 transact SQL enhancements to SQL …
For years I have heard the question of how can I do an IIF in TSQL? Honestly I never thought it would be that useful since the CASE statement is easy enough to use, but after seeing it in TSQL …
After the last post on Cumulative Distribution Function (CDF) or as it is known in TSQL CUME_DIST(), I realized that although I showed how to use it, I didn’t really explain what it means, or when to use it. That …
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Continuing on the TSQL 2012 Analytic Series now on to the CUME_DIST function SQL Server 2012 introduces another new analytic function. The Cumulative Distribution Function CUME_DIST() refers to the probability that the value of a random variable falls within a …
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Like the other new Analytic functions, PERCENTILE_DISC and PERCENTILE_CONT require the use of the OVER clause. For this example I will be using almost the same revenue table in the sample database that I set up for the LEAD and LAG …
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The OUTPUT clause is often times underappreciated by the TSQL programmer. There are many really interesting things that you can do with the OUTPUT clause, from inserting to two tables with one statement or to replace the SCOPE_IDENTITY option. For …