Article of the Week – Sanjay Mirsha (Data Compression)
Data Compression was introduced in SQL Server 2008. This feature helps compress data inside the database, thus potentially reducing the...
2009-11-10
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Patrick LeBlanc
New Job with Pragmatic Works
Well if you attended PASS, you already know that I am changing jobs. I recently accepted a position with Pragmatic...
2009-11-09
675 reads
Today’s SQL Lunch – Understanding and Preventing SQL Injection with Kevin Kline
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2009-11-09
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PASS Presentation Rehearsal
My friend Trevor Barkhouse called me up a couple of nights ago and asked if I could host a Live...
2009-10-30
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SQLLunch – Accidental DBA and Performance Data Collector
If you haven’t had a chance to attend the SQL Lunch Live Meeting learning series then sign in Monday at...
2009-10-23
877 reads
Wildcard – Match One Character using Underscore (_)
I was recently contacted by a developer with what I would consider to be a very simple question. How do...
2009-10-21
2,705 reads
SQL Saturday #21 Orlando – Recap
This past weekend I had the pleasure of not only attending, but speaking at SQL Saturday in Orlando, FL. When...
2009-10-19
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MSDE – Database Size Limit
Most of you are aware that the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE) limits database size to 2 gigabytes. ...
2009-10-13
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SQL Server Lunch Milestone (100+ Attendees)
Today’s SQL Lunch was a huge success, even though we experienced a few technical difficulties. Tim Mitchell spoke on Deploying...
2009-10-12
778 reads
Baton Rouge October SQL Server User Group
Last night I presented, Monitoring Disk Space using CLR, to the Baton Rouge Area SQL Server User Group. There were...
2009-10-09
733 reads
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
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A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
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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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