SQLSaturday #40 – South Florida Recap
I had the great privilege to be able to attend and speak at SQLSaturday #40 – South Florida this past weekend...
2010-08-02
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Jack Corbett
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Personal or Professional Ethics
Steve Jones had an interesting blog post the other day, Do as I Say, Not as I Do, and I...
2010-07-30
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Interviewed by Andy Leonard
Andy Leonard is posting interviews of all the candidates PASS Board of Directors on his blog and mine is up...
2010-07-28
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #40 – South Florida
I finally get to head down to Miramar to speak at SQLSaturday #40 – South Florida. I really wanted to go...
2010-07-27
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How I Prepared to Run for the PASS Board
The Boy Scouts have “Be Prepared” as their motto and, while I was never a scout, I think it’s always...
2010-07-23
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July OPASS Meeting Wrap up
Last Tuesday, July 13th, we had our monthly OPASS meeting. The meeting was sponsored by RedGate who were kind enough...
2010-07-20
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I’m All In – Running for the PASS Board
Yes, I’m going to run for the PASS Board of Directors. I have my application and will be sending it out...
2010-07-19
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ANSI PADDING, Trailing Whitespace, and Variable Character Columns
What does ANSI_PADDING mean and how does it affect my SQL Server database?
2010-07-17 (first published: 2008-09-12)
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Article Featured on SQLServerCentral
My article, ANSI Padding, Trailing Whitespace, and Variable Length Character Columns, is featured in today’s SQLServerCentral newsletter. Check it out!...
2010-07-16
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July OPASS Meeting
OPASS will be holding it’s July meeting this evening from 6pm – 8:30pm at 225 S. Westmonte Drive, Altamonte Springs, FL. ...
2010-07-13
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
T-SQL Tuesday #196: Taking Risks
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, James Serra. I’ve been trying to find...
Forums
would it be so terrible to install ssms on a few user desktops?
Hi, ssms is free here. I can think of other reasons to do this...
I'm thinking about submitting some articles
I've written some documentation on using different Markdown types of files on GitHub. It's...
Not Just an Upgrade
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Question of the Day
Restoring On Top I
I am doing development work on a database and want to keep a backup so I can reset my database. I make some changes and want to restore over top of my changes. When I run this code, what happens?
USE Master BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO USE DNRTest GO CREATE TABLE MyTest(myid INT) GO USE master RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACESee possible answers