PASS Summit 2013 Schedule
Each year, I like to compile my own shortcut, cheat sheet version of the PASS Summit schedule. I’m not talking...
2013-09-10
1,053 reads
Jen McCown
A Short Treatise on Studying (#mcmstudy)
So I’m studying a lot these days, and I find myself evaluating and reconsidering the theories of “study” that I’ve...
2013-09-09
694 reads
A Better Braindump (#mcm #mcmstudy)
I’m studying my butt off for the soon-to-be-deprecated Microsoft Certified Master cert’s lab – and the three unfinished prerequisite certs I’ve...
2013-09-05
709 reads
Terminal #MCM – 30 days to go
We just finished the webshow last night, when one of our chatroom fellows – Nic Cain – told us that the MCM...
2013-08-31
1,182 reads
“Unraveling Tangled Code” recording and downloads!
Last weekend I gave my “Unraveling Tangled Code” talk at SQL Saturday Oklahoma, and they were kind enough to record...
2013-08-30
1,118 reads
Authority as the Enemy: Notes on elections and perceptions in the tech community
Let’s hear a story. The story is true, but elements have been generalized and fictionalized for simplicity, and so’s not...
2013-08-23
605 reads
Social Media as News (and why it thrills me)
The other day I found myself in a discussion about media – print, broadcast, and social – and having to explain why...
2013-08-14
866 reads
Summer absences, upcoming appearances, and…
It’s summer here in the northern hemisphere, and in Texas we’re getting 100F-plus weather pretty consistently. This brain-frying weather may...
2013-08-12
578 reads
TRY, CATCH, and Transactions
The T-SQL TRY/CATCH structure (“new” in SQL 2005!) is, as the professionals say, da bomb. It’s also underused and under-understood,...
2013-06-20
2,409 reads
Why should we upgrade off of SQL Server 2000?
A good many companies still have servers chugging along on SQL Server 2000 (or even, as some of us noted...
2013-06-13
902 reads
Blogs
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Forums
SSMS 22 Latest Update Crashing
Hi all, I've just had to roll back my SSMS 22 version from 22.3.0,...
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The Power of Data and...
Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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