Whats the count???

Identity Column

Federation_filtering_value

How to Avoid Conditional JOINs in T-SQL

Relational databases go out of their way to execute SQL, however bad the crimes against Codd and relational theory within the query might be. The 'conditional join' can be executed, but at great cost. As always, it is much better to sit back and restate the problem in a set-based way - Dwain Camps explains.

Wildcard Searches

Using wildcard to find patterns in strings going from the basics to some more complicated conditions.

Counting Classes

Choosing values

LEADing Rows

T-SQL Window Functions Speed Phreakery

Before SQL Server had SQL window functions, SQL Server developers had to use all manner of tricks and algorithms to come up with ways to rapidly process large amounts of data. Do we need these techniques now that we can express a SQL task in terms of window functions? Kathi revisits a famous SQL challenge to find out.

Calculate relative time

dynamically calculates a timestamp