Common table expressions are beneficial to use when writing or managing complex queries. Being condensed or simplified, CTEs increase accessibility and digestion. Watch Steve’s video for more on CTEs…… Transcription of this video: Why would you use common table expressions? I mean, you may have been writing SQL queries for 10 or more years, and have never used a common …

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Hooray! It’s CTE month. Some of you may be happy but you others may by like ugh. Common table expressions can be tough and confusing but WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED! This month we will be throwing lots of valuable CTE information and resources at you including….. Instructional videos Tips of the trade And a FREE download! Check in daily to …

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Ok cool Stedman Solutions is having CTE (common table expressions) month in June. What does that mean for you my reader? Well let me share all the goodies I have to offer this month! Next month I will be releasing……. Over 15 CTE videos with topics ranging from a memory table to recursive CTE’s Common table expressions hot tips A …

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I am looking for feedback on your naming conventions for a couple areas relating to naming convention. As Stedman Solutions consultants we work for several clients in each week, and sometimes any team member may work with more than 15 clients in a month. That gives us a large variety of exposure to different nomenclatures. Some of those conventions are …

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Today Microsoft released a new update for SQL Server. SQL Server 2019 CU 16 (KB 5011644) 4/18/2022 (Windows) 5/10/2022 (Big Data Clusters) 5/16/2022(Linux) Here are the latest updates for each version of SQL Server. SQL Server 2019 RTM CU 16Download links: CU 16 (KB 5011644)   SQL Server 2017 RTM CU 29Download links: CU 29 (KB 5010786)   SQL Server …

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One of the services we do a ton of is our Design and Development Service. This involves anything from writing custom TSQL procedures to website integration with the database to custom C# applications that we have created. We at Stedman Solutions work with in types of environments – If you have a new application in the cloud with 500+ TB …

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Here listed is the current percentages of SQL server versions running our Daily SQL monitoring service with Database Health Monitor. Compare this month’s percentages to Last Month’s Percentages What does this post mean?? We offer a service called SQL Daily Checkup. The pie chart above represents all of our current customers using our service and what SQL Server versions they are running. …

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