Some Post-PASS Thoughts on Local User Groups
For all the groups the most immediate need is to rescue what they can of the mailing list stored at PASS.org and to have a new landing page and/or...
2020-12-29 (first published: 2020-12-20)
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Andy Warren
Splitting up the Mission of PASS
Following up on Should There Be A Successor to PASS? I have a couple more thoughts. One of the many complaints about PASS over the years was about perceived value....
2020-12-28
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Should There Be A Successor to PASS?
PASS was a big influence on a lot of us and did a lot of good, if never quite as much good as many of us wished. I wish...
2020-12-26
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The 2021 Plan for SQLOrlando
Over the past couple years we’ve been slowly evolving from a fairly adhoc plan of doing what we did last year to a semi structured plan that was mainly...
2020-12-20
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A Note to the PASS Board of Directors
I just read with dismay that Mindy Curnutt has resigned. That’s a big loss at a time when the future of PASS is in doubt and we need all...
2020-12-06
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The Future of PASS
2020 has been a tough year for PASS. It’s primary fund raiser – the PASS Summit – was converted to a virtual event that attracted fewer attendees and far...
2020-12-04 (first published: 2020-11-21)
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Requesting Comments on the SQLOrlando Operations Manual
For the past couple weeks I’ve been trying to capture a lot of ideas about how and what and why we do things in Orlando and put them into...
2020-12-02
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Serious Thoughts About PASS
Back when Covid started I guessed that this might be yet another live-or-die challenge for PASS. PASS is heavily dependent on Summit revenue and uses it to fund all...
2020-11-23 (first published: 2020-11-12)
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Notes on the PASS 2020 Virtual Summit – Conclusions
I waited a week to write this, letting the experience settle some. Looking back, it wasn’t a terrible experience. Content was findable and as far as I could tell...
2020-11-21
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Notes on the 2020 PASS Virtual Summit – Part 6
Mostly Friday notes here. This morning I was the moderator for Continuous Integration with Local Agents and Azure DevOps by Steve Jones. The way the Summit worked this year...
2020-11-14
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Blogs
Big Queries, Big Money
By Steve Jones
I had been meaning to post this, so as I finished a piece that...
A New Word: Fardle-dun
By Steve Jones
fardle-din – n. a long-overdue argument that shakes up a relationship, burning wildly through...
Lukáš Karlovský: I got the green light from management and built Fabric specialization from scratch
The post Lukáš Karlovský: I got the green light from management and built Fabric...
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The Pervasive Nature of Open Source
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Migrating from SSRS 2008 (SP Integrated) to 2022 (Native)
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Question of the Day
Subqueries II
What is wrong (if anything) with this code?
SELECT *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
WHERE customerid IN (SELECT soh.CustomerID
FROM Sales.Customer AS C
WHERE soh.CurrencyRateID = 1
ORDER BY c.ModifiedDate)
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