As part of our weekly free SQL Query Training, we have split the 70-461 curriculum into 4 sections to prepare everyone to take the certification test later in the year. Today’s session is to review the first 25% of the sessions, or the section 1 review as we are calling it. The review topics we will be covering today are …

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We are currently about 25% of the way through the SQL Server 70-461 exam preparation class, which has been available through Google On Air Broadcasts every Thursday at 9:00am Pacific time. To celebrate the 25% mark, and to strengthen the training we have decided to do a review session on everything that we have covered so far. Null Expressions Identity …

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The SQL Training was a lot of fun this week we covered Top, Ranking, NTILE, and Analytic functions in preparation for the Microsoft 70-461 exam. Next week Aaron Buma and I will be presenting Set Operators, Derived Tables and CTEs. The live session will be with Google On Air Broadcasts Thursday Feb 12th at 9:00am (pacific). This is a FREE SQL Training …

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I have been asked to help a development team with training so that they can all take and pass the SQL Queries 70-461 Microsoft certification. After looking it over and understanding all the topics needed for the 70-461 SQL Queries certification, Aaron Buma and I we have worked out a plan to get everyone on the development team through this training. …

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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 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 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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