Category: SSC

Fun with Operator Precedence

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date December 31, 2015
Categories In Beginner, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tech and Learning, TSQL
2 Comments on 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 […]

Issues and opinions on the PASS anti-harassment policy (#sqlpass)

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 25, 2015
Categories In Community, News, People and Opinions, SQLPASS, SSC
4 Comments on Issues and opinions on the PASS anti-harassment policy (#sqlpass)

PASS just published an anti-harassment policy reminder, quickly followed by a blog by Wendy Pastrick (about a bad experience at last month’s conference, and why it took a while to report it). We’ve had some conversation on Twitter about it all, and a couple of jokes, and some back and forth. Here are a few related items, and […]

A Data Age proclamation

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 12, 2015
Categories In All Things MidnightDBA, Minion by MidnightDBA, People and Opinions, Philosophy, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

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. […]