Feedback and Change
Today Steve asks you to be a part of the change you'd like to see in our professional organization.
2019-10-10
143 reads
Today Steve asks you to be a part of the change you'd like to see in our professional organization.
2019-10-10
143 reads
If you haven’t read the proposed changes yet you should do that first and form your own opinion before reading mine. Thoughts here are high level, not a line...
The...
2019-05-10
There are so many ways of keeping your technical skills and knowledge up-to-date. There are books, articles, conferences, video courses and so on, but nothing beats discussion and debate with professional people in other organisations facing a similar range of technical challenges, some of which you share, and others you maybe haven't yet. PASS is unique in providing just this vital ingredient for database professionals using the Microsoft Data Stack.
2016-12-12
6,151 reads
If you couldn't vote last week or didn't get a ballot, you still can. Please go to www.sqlpass.org and learn more.
2014-10-03 (first published: 2014-09-29)
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An interview with James Rowland-Jones in advance of the PASS election.
2014-09-26
6,152 reads
Bringing together business analysts, data scientists, and business intelligence and IT pros, the PASS BA Conference will feature 65+ best-practices, how-to, and strategy sessions by top BA/BI experts. Keynoting this year is Information Is Beautiful author David McCandless.
2014-03-31
328 reads
Spend a day with top experts from the world of business analytics and business intelligence on Feb. 5 and learn how to get the most from your data in a series of 12 free, live training webcasts with on-demand replay.
2014-01-21
2,869 reads
Red Gate is shipping new features and fixes this week, based on requests from attendees at SQL in the City Charlotte and PASS Summit 2013.
2013-10-11
704 reads
On Thursday March 21st 12PM noon Central, Steve Hughes will discuss Accounting for Windows Azure when looking at Data Architecture.
2013-03-19
2,692 reads
On Thursday May 17th 12PM noon Central, Mike Fal will discuss "SQL Server's table partitioning gives the DBA tools to manage this beast and support very large tables in a way where index management and data retrieval..."
2012-05-15
2,124 reads
By Steve Jones
I love Chicago. I went to visit three times in 2023: a Redgate event,...
By Brian Kelley
I have found that non-functional requirements (NFRs) can be hard to define for a...
You can find the slidedeck for my Techorama session “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” on...
Testing with AG on Linux with Cluster=NONE. it was all going ok and as...
Hi, I have two tables: one for headers with 9 fields and another for...
We're trying to understand how quick new versions of SQL server can be. Obviously...
Let’s consider the following script that can be executed without any error on both SQL Sever and PostgreSQL. We define the table t1 in which we insert three records:
create table t1 (id int primary key, city varchar(50)); insert into t1 values (1, 'Rome'), (2, 'New York'), (3, NULL);If we execute the following query, how will the records be sorted in both environments?
select city from t1 order by city;See possible answers