Updated with more SQL Saturdays! Well hi there, folks. A month slips by so very fast. Here is your January report on what we’re up to, and where we’re going to be in the near future. What are we up to? Minion, of course! Also, Minion, and some Minion. In our spare time, we Minion. […]
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Fun with Operator Precedence
Let’s have some fun with operator precedence today. Specifically, logical operator precedence. Specifically, how is it evaluated when your where clause says “WHERE This AND That OR Something AND that”, without any clarifying parenthesis? Let’s play around with this. The simplest test scenario is a SELECT 1. If I get a 1 back, that means my WHERE clause evaluated […]
A Data Age proclamation
Twice in two days now, I’ve gotten in discussions with people about the state of data usage…the idea that we have absolutely massive amounts of data at our disposal – especially us, as if you’re reading this, you’re likely a DBA or at least an IT professional – but that people are not using data to its fullest extent. […]