Someone tagged me, and I’ve lost the email in all the pile up from vacation where I was very, very unwired from work, despite being wired to the world. Actually I’ll make that one my first thing: Know When to Walk Away Not quit, not stop progressing on...
2009-02-16
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SQL Server 2008, code named Katmai, has some very interesting additions to the SQL Server platform to make your development tasks easier. One of these is passing a table variable as a parameter to a stored procedure and regular columnist Jacob Sebastian shows us how.
2009-02-13 (first published: 2007-09-12)
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Steve Jones takes a break today and gives you a fun reel of mistakes and bloopers.
2009-02-13
480 reads
Steve Jones takes a break today and gives you a fun reel of mistakes and bloopers.
2009-02-13
494 reads
This month's installment of "MDX Essentials" examines the HIERARCHY_UNIQUE_NAME intrinsic member property. Join SSAS Architect Bill Pearson in an introduction of this intrinsic member property, which Bill complements with hands-on exercises and sample uses.
2009-02-13
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Last week I posted Speaking at Community Events - Time to Raise the Bar?, a first cut at talking about to what degree we should require experience for speakers at events like SQLSaturday as well as when it might be appropriate to add additional focus/limitations on the presentations that are accepted. I've got a few more thoughts on the topic this week, and I look forward to your comments.
2009-02-13
360 reads
This article is part 1 of a 4 part series that explores the internals of SQL Server Integration Services. This series will focus on the SSIS architecture, buffer management, types of transformation, the execution tree and parallel processing.
2009-02-13
3,960 reads
Testing software is important, and the use of state models can help. This week Steve Jones talks about a new book that exposes software testing at Microsoft.
2009-02-13
830 reads
Testing software is important, and the use of state models can help. This week Steve Jones talks about a new book that exposes software testing at Microsoft.
2009-02-13
778 reads
Testing software is important, and the use of state models can help. This week Steve Jones talks about a new book that exposes software testing at Microsoft.
2009-02-13
774 reads
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I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks...
By Arun Sirpal
After a year away getting to grips with AI and its application across the...
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