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Sandip Pani

I've more than 5 years of experiance as a SQL/BI developer. I worked in SQL server 2005/ 2008/ 2008R2 and SQL Server 2012. Currently Working for QSI Healthcare (NextGen). Active Memeber of SQLBangalore and BDotNet user groups.
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There are new functions introduces with the release of MS-SQL Server 2012. To perform analytic operation in T-SQL , this time Microsoft has added couple of very handy functions.

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SQL Server– How to Encrypt Column Data 10 Mar 2013
Encryption is one of the most secure way to protect your confidential data like Social Security Number, Date Of Birth , Patient clinical information etc. We need to encrypt certain data to meet the business requirements and sometime to meet certain compliance. Here we’ll see how can we encrypt ...

SQL Server – Index Selection Fundamental 16 Jan 2013
Index is one of most widely discussed topic among developers and DBAs. During query optimization Index is one of the important aspects. I came across multiple instances where Developer/ DBA creates Index but they are not sure whether that index is used by the optimizer or not. Also I received ...

SQL Server – New Analytical functions in SQL Server 2012 – Lead and Lag 10 Jan 2013
LAG: Using this function we can fetch the nth row before (Lag) the Current row without using self-join. It is useful when we need to compare the current row values with values in a previous row. Syntax: LAG (scalar_expression [,offset] [,default])     OVER ( [ partition_by_clause ] ...

SQL Server – Happy New Year 2013 and Happy First Anniversary to My Blog 31 Dec 2012
Wish you a very Happy New Year 2013. Today is a special day for me to celebrate the New Year because today my blog post turned 1 year old. I can’t believe that I have been blogging for a year now. This blog was just created with an intension to share what I learned during [...]

SQL Server – Order of Column and Impact of equality operator on Index operation 24 Dec 2012
Does order of Column in where clause matters? Before you answer to this question I recommend all to read the blog post SQLAuthority. Whenever I have any doubt, I always play around with it to clarify my doubt. While doing experiment with index operation, I learnt something and here I’m ...