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Additional T-SQL Improvements in SQL Server 2022

SQL Performance

SQL Server 2022 introduces a standard feature called the distinct predicate, which is designed to apply comparisons using two-valued logic, treating NULLs like non-NULL values. If you’re using T-SQL to compute percentiles as part of your work, these functions should be familiar to you since they’ve been supported in SQL Server 2005 and later.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. The ​​ SQL Server 2000 I/O Basics ​​ document is a prerequisite to ​​ the information contained in this ​​ document.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. These are all astonishing tools for making our limited capacity for attention more efficient.

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A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

Strategic Tech

Google Maps started life in 2005 as a desktop application for getting from point A to point B. Two particularly relevant patterns are Efficiency Enables Evolution and Higher Order Systems Create New Sources of Worth. In Wardley lingo, Google Maps is so efficient that it acts as a building block for higher-order systems (e.g.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. Fortunately, doing so via better query design, indexing, etc. of Total Wait Time.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Although these problems are very different, we are trying to establish a common framework that helps to design optimization and data mining tasks required for solutions. The design of the model heavily depends on the problem. This model helps to design targeted usage expansion campaigns. Propensity to category expansion.

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Making A Strong Case For Accessibility

Smashing Magazine

The case for accessibility is this; we as stakeholders, managers, teams, designers and developers need to do better in not only practicing accessibility but advocating for it as well. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”. without the need for special adaptation or specialized design.”.

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