PASS SQLRally – Session/Speaker Selection
Hopefully by now you’ve heard about the PASS SQLRally event that will be held in Orlando, May 11-13. Andy Warren,...
2010-09-09
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Jack Corbett
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Upcoming Engagements
I haven’t been speaking a lot lately as I’ve been busy working, planning SQLSaturday #49 – Orlando, and planning PASS SQLRally,...
2010-09-07
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Book Review: Crunch Time
About a month ago I went to Barnes & Noble to pick up a copy of Seth Godin’s book, Tribes: We...
2010-09-01
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Last Place? Doesn’t Matter.
As the debate rages on about the PASS election I want to share my thoughts about being a candidate that...
2010-08-23
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Didn’t Make the Cut
So the slate has been announced, so now I feel like I can talk about not making the cut. Based...
2010-08-18
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Reaction to Steve Jones Missing the Cut
If you read this blog I’m sure you read Steve Jones’ blog as well, so you know that the PASS...
2010-08-18
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Growing PASS Step Two: Value
In Growing PASS Step One: Communication I talked about how I think that PASS could grow by communicating the vision...
2010-08-17
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PASS Nominating Committee Interview
As my regular readers know I applied to be part of the PASS Board of Directors. The process starts with...
2010-08-12
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August OPASS Meeting Tonight
August 10, 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Come on out and join us as our own Tim McAliley presents. For directions visit the OPASS...
2010-08-10
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SQLSaturday #49 – Orlando Update
Planning is going forward for SQLSaturday #49 – Orlando and the event is coming together well. My main task is sponsors...
2010-08-05
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers