Setting Goals for the New Year and Beyond
I've never been a big fan of "New Year's Resolutions" for the same reason most other folks are against them:...
2006-12-29
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Brian Kelley
- Interests: Chess, Reading, Soccer (Football), Baseball, Animals, Theology
How to handle an invalid default database
My general recommendation for SQL Server service accounts and accounts that have sysadmin fixed server role membership is to default...
2006-12-11
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Midlands PASS Chapter is official
A group of us met on Thursday, December 7th, 2006, and voted to approve the bylaws and a motion to...
2006-12-11
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Jason Haley recently began posting his interesting finds again
Jason Haley used to post his Interesting Finds about every day, if not multiple times a day. The interesting finds...
2006-12-09
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SysInternals Tools Updated
Several SysInternals Tools have been updated. One of the big updates was to the PSTools Suite - now you can pass...
2006-12-09
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Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tools Available
If you're like me and rely a lot on the resource kit tools, you may have found that it's relatively...
2006-12-09
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Log Buffer #22: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Welcome to the 22nd edition of Log Buffer, a
weekly compendium of postings and news from database-related blogs across the...
2006-12-08
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Extreme Work
"The Productivity Pro" Laura Stack posted in her blog today about jobs where long hours are the norm:
'Extreme' jobs...
2006-12-05
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Guidance on Microsoft Certified Architect Submissions
For those considering the Microsoft Certified Architect program, some guidance on what to submit as documentation has been posted to...
2006-12-05
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Excellent post on encryption
Laurentiu Cristofor has an excellent blog post, Who needs encryption?, which presents some point blank facts about encryption and the...
2006-12-01
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Blogs
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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