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After meeting the stellar pre-con speakers and exploring the 5 learning pathways at #PASSDataSummit 2024, we’re excited to reveal the keynote lineup. Each day will kick off with inspiring keynotes from Microsoft, Redgate, and a special community-driven session led by industry experts. Don’t miss out on these insightful sessions designed to energize and empower you throughout PASS Summit 2024.

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2024-10-07

Uniqueness, Keys, and Identity

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SimpleTalk

Database Design and Implementation

If you’ve ever had a traditional logic course, you’ll have run into “The Law of Identity” as the founding principle of all Western thought. It says that: “To be is to be something in particular; to be nothing in particular or anything in general, is to be nothing at all.”

2024-10-07

Display More Than 8000 Characters (SQL Spackle)

by Jeff Moden

SQLServerCentral.com

T-SQL

SQL Server MVP Jeff Moden shows us a quick and dirty bit of SQL Spackle to display the content of VARCHAR(MAX) and NVARCHAR(MAX).

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2024-10-04 (first published: 2011-01-27)

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Storing and Retrieving the Initialization and Configuration Data for Applications

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SimpleTalk

All developers hit the problem of how and where to store and set their configuration, profile, or initial data. A long time ago, it was generally decided that simple text files containing key/values were best, stored with the application. After all, you are relying on being able to entice busy people to get the permanent settings right for their requirements, folks who are generally not interested in your elegant computer science constructs. Not only that, but the settings must be parsed very quickly and efficiently, otherwise a process that uses the tool will slow to a crawl.

2024-10-04

Why customers love SQL Prompt

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Redgate

SQL Prompt has long been a customer favorite thanks to its ability to boost productivity. Discover how fellow database professionals are leveraging SQL Prompt to accelerate their coding speed and improve code quality.

2024-10-04

Exploring Time Travel and Row Level Concurrency: Data Engineering with Fabric

by John Miner

SQLServerCentral

Microsoft Fabric (Azure Synapse, Data Engineering, etc.)

Learn how updates and concurrency can work in Fabric with Delta Parquet data.

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2024-10-02

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Casino night is back at PASS Summit 2024!

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SQLServerCentral

PASS Summit

Back by popular demand, casino night from SQL Server Central will return to PASS Summit this year. Casino night will take place on November 5 after the welcome reception. Tickets will be allocated at random via a lottery.