Edit: SQL Sat OKC has come and gone, but the new session on comments is recorded and up on the MidnightDBA Events page! (Direct link to WMV.) Tomorrow (as of the blog’s publish date) at8:30am, I will be teaching “T-SQL’s Hidden Support Feature” at SQL Saturday Oklahoma City (totally free, did you know? Free IT training, y’all.) I said […]
Category: Dev
Tricky TSQL: NOT IN (NULL)
We’ve done this before, but we can go one better this time. Let’s take this step by step. NULL means “I don’t know”. It stand for an unknown value. Nothing can be equal to NULL. We simply can’t say that 1 = NULL, or ‘ABBA’ = NULL, because we don’t know what value NULL might possibly be […]
SSMS regular expressions: format text into a block
Sean’s RegEx for DBAs class must be finally sinking in for me. Today I was able to figure out a RegEx thing in SQL Server Management Studio. Here’s the problem: Sometimes I document an SP in MS Word, then copy-paste the paragraph into a comment block in the SP. Of course, when I do this, the paragraph is in […]