I love the T-SQL Tuesday tradition, started by Adam Machanic and hosted this month by Brad Shulz. I am a little pressed for time this month, so today’s post is a short ode to how I love saving time with Composable Code in SQL. Composability is one of the very best features of SQL, but sometimes gets picked on due to both real and imaginary ...

I recently returned to a client at which I last worked back in 2006 and, as you might imagine, that gives me ample material for a blog post dedicated to Crap Code; conveniently the subject of the latest T-SQL Tuesday. I first worked for this client back in 2004 and that is significant because back then we were writing code on SQL Server 2000. Ah, ...

One of the most commonly used data types in SQL Server is [datetime] which unfortunately has some vagaries around how values get casted. A typical method for defining a [datetime] literal is to write it as a character string and then cast it appropriately. The cast syntax looks something like this: DECLARE @dt ...