SQLPASS Day 2: Keynote Live Blog
Them's some SEXY DBAs...
I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 8:44 local time.
Here’s the PASS website description of the day 2 keynote...
2010-11-10
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Jen McCown
SQLPASS Day 2: WIT Luncheon Live Blog
12:42pm local time at the live streamed Women in Technology luncheon…let’s blog. I’ll italicize my comments, to differentiate betwee that...
2010-11-10
1,126 reads
SQLPASS Day 1: Keynote Live Blog
Day 1 Keynote Jumps the Shark with Tina Turner Impersonator
I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 8:38 local time.
You wouldn’t guess...
2010-11-09
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MERGE Statement Corrected, or, How to Eat Crow in Public
Better pull out the excuse-o-meter
I have no excuse, none whatsoever.
In my T-SQL Brush-Up presentation to the North Texas SQL Server...
2010-11-03
839 reads
Attend the PASS Summit From Home
You there, sitting in your cube and fuming at all the PASS Summit talk: you couldn’t talk your company into...
2010-11-01
878 reads
A Little SSMS Wish
IN SQL Server 2000, we didn’t have the fancy-schmancy Management Studio…we had Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer, and we liked em,...
2010-10-27
518 reads
SQL Saturday #56 BI Edition Wrap-up
On Saturday I (unexpectedly) presented at Dallas’ first Business Intelligence-focused SQL Saturday at the Microsoft campus in Irving. I wasn’t on...
2010-10-25
1,506 reads
SQL Saturday #56 – The 24 hour Challenge
SQL Saturday #56, Dallas BI edition, is tomorrow. Last night before the NTSSUG meeting, we had an unusually high number of...
2010-10-22
795 reads
Ground Zero Database Design: Part 2
Last week I wrote Ground Zero Database Design, thinking that was a good enough bare-bones intro (with recommended reading!) that...
2010-10-20
738 reads
SQLKilt / WIT Shirts
This shirt was specifically requested by an online friend who shall remain nameless (his name rhymes with “Duck Hoodie”). Another...
2010-10-20
1,099 reads
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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