Is Microsoft “years behind” in cloud apps?
Microsoft is associated almost exclusively with Windows and Office. Unfortunately a lot more...
2010-05-15
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Opportunities in (I.T.) Chaos
I just finished reading “The next wave of technologies” by Phil Simon. A great read! It proposes a...
2010-04-18
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The Web 3.0 has finally arrived… It’s The Cloud
The 2008 trending topic everyone was talking about was the Web 2.0. On October 23 that same year,...
2010-04-02
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Blogs
How to Learn SQL Without Quitting Your Day Job
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SQL Server 2025
By Vinay Thakur
Microsoft announced on November 2024 a preview for SQL Server 2025 another major release...
Advice I Like: Apologies
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How to apologize: quickly, specifically, sincerely. Don’t ruin an apology with an excuse –...
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SQL Clustered Resource in online pending for about 3-5 mins before coming online
Hello! SQL Clustered resource used to come online during manual or automatic failover in...
SQL Query to use in MS SSRS server to give you your report structure.
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Temp table security
So, I have an interesting situation that I need a double-check on. One of...
Question of the Day
Escaping Like I
I have this data in a SQL Server 2022 table:
PlayerIDPlayerNamePlayerStatus 1The \%ChampActive 2The ChampActive 3The_ChampionActive 4The__ChampionActive 5The\_ChampActiveHow many rows are returned by this code in SQL Server 2022?
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