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Stairway to SQL PowerShell Level 2: SQL PowerShell Setup and Config

Ben Miller from SQLServerCentral.com

Now that you know how to get started with PowerShell, it is time to configure PowerShell for SQL Server use. This level covers the components you'll need and how to configure them. More »

Red Gate’s new custom metrics site - with a little help from our friends

Press Release from Red-Gate

With contributions from MVPs and the SQL Server community, the SQL Monitor team at Red Gate has put together a custom metrics site, SQL Monitor Metrics, to accompany the release of SQL Monitor 3.2. The site hosts T-SQL scripts which can be imported directly to SQL Monitor for custom metric monitoring. More »

SQL Saturday #157 - San Diego

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Southern California isn't all beach time. SQL Saturday comes to San Diego on Sept 15, 2012. Join fellow SQL Server pros for a day of learning. More »

Implement Continuous Integration In Your Software Project

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Continuous integration, or CI, brings developers closer to delivering error-free software flawlessly. Find out how to implement it.  More »

PASS Data Architecture VC presents Louis Davidson on Designing for Common Problems in SQL Server

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On Thursday August 16th 12PM noon Central, Louis Davidson will do a design and code review of several common patterns of solving problems that a typical programmer will come up against in SQL Server. More »

From the SQLServerCentral Blogs - SQL Server: Understanding the Data Page Structure

We all know very well that SQL server stores data in 8 KB pages and it is the basic unit... More »

Someone else gets it. Besides me, I mean. We should be teaching people the C programming language. An interview with David Griffiths, author of Head First C, says that learning C is a good idea. I concur, and I stand by my statement.

It's not that I think everyone should be a C expert, but I'd like to see more programmers spend 5 months, a semester, early in their programming careers. If you've written your own iOS app, this would be a piece of cake. If you're a Python guru, it would broaden your horizons. Getting closer to hardware helps you write code in a more thoughtful way.

I'd like to see a C programming course as a semester requirement for quite a few fields that might need to develop programs. Not only computer science majors, but also scientists that might need to deal with building their own algorithms. In the same vein, perhaps it's worth a SQL class for everyone to better understand how to work with sets of data. A query class could also include some of the other query languages, perhaps MDX and XQuery would make sense as well.

I know this sounds like busy work, but as we become more and more dependent on data and scripting for all sorts of jobs I think it makes sense to start setting a baseline of expected skill for knowledge workers. Those people that knew programming could potentially pass a C test,  and they would be exempt. As we evolve into the future, especially as we may move to more vocational type training, I think it would be good to still require some basics of people as they begin their journey to working with code and computers.

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Today's Question:

DECLARE @EmployeeDetails TABLE (EmpNo Int ,
                     EmpName Varchar(10),
                     EmpPlace Varchar(100))
                    
Insert into @EmployeeDetails Values(1,'samith',NULL)
Insert into @EmployeeDetails Values(2,'sreepathi','Kannur')
Insert into @EmployeeDetails Values(3,'Jamsheer','Calicut')
Insert into @EmployeeDetails Values(4,'Naseer',NULL)
Insert into @EmployeeDetails Values(5,'Rejith','Palakkad')

SELECT *
FROM @EmployeeDetails
WHERE EmpPlace <> 'Kannur'

What are the number of rows returned in this query?

By Samith C

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Given the following table:

DECLARE @table TABLE (
  RowID INTEGER IDENTITY,
  BitValue BIT NOT NULL);

Which of the following values will be inserted as a true / 1 value into the BitValue column? (select all that apply)

 INSERT INTO @Table (BitValue)
  SELECT -1 UNION ALL
  SELECT 0 UNION ALL
  SELECT 1 UNION ALL
  SELECT 25;

By Wayne Sheffield

Answer:

• -1
• 1
• 25

Explanation: Converting to bit will convert any non-zero value to 1.

Reference: Bit: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177603

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Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Equip your organization for informed, timely decision making using the expert tips and best practices in this practical guide. Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Third Edition explains how to effectively develop, customize, and distribute meaningful information to users enterprise-wide. Learn how to build data marts and create BI Semantic Models, work with the MDX and DAX languages, and share insights using Microsoft client tools. Data mining and forecasting are also covered in this comprehensive resource.

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Unattended Install with PowerShell

Derik Hammer from SQLServerCentral.com

A PowerShell script which will guide you through an interview and produce the configuration file(s) necessary for an unattended installation of SQL Server 2008/2008R2. More »

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