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SELECT: If ON preceeds JOIN, then how….

I got some excellent questions from my 24HOP session yesterday, and when presenting the same session at NTSSUG last night.  There were a few questions pointing to the same area:  * How is the ON clause evaluated before the JOIN clause?  * If ON is evaluated before the JOIN, how does it resolve table aliases […]

T-8d till SQL Saturday #52 (CO)

It’s only twelve  eight days until SQL Saturday #52 in Colorado! I’ll be presenting Code Sins and my new T-SQL Brush-up.  Check out the schedule…you have sessions from such awesome and familiar names as Chris Shaw, Drew Minkin, Glenn Berry, Jack Corbett, Janis riffin, Jason Strate, Meredith Ryan-Smith, Steve Jones,  Tim Mitchell,  and oh so many more… […]

New Hotness: sys.sql_modules

I’m still old school in many ways. And they’re not the ways that let you get away with wearing wayfarers, or shouting “get off my lawn, you kids!” In this case, I’m still havin a hard time weaning myself off the old system table “syscomments”. I LOVE syscomments…I can find a piece of code anywhere in […]