SQLSaturday Baton Rouge #628 2017
Come join around 500+ attendees and speakers learning and networking at the LSU College of Business – Business Education Complex on...
2017-07-21
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Blog Posts
The Choices We Make
If you keep your head up and look around you’ll see the choices people make all the time. I saw...
2017-07-21 (first published: 2017-07-10)
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Toolbox - Which Tables are Using All of My Space?
This is the next in a new series of blogs I am going to create talking about useful tools (mostly...
2017-07-21
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T-SQL Tuesday #92 - Trust But Verify
It's T-SQL Tuesday time again, and this month the host is Raul Gonzalez (blog/@SQLDoubleG). His chosen topic is Lessons Learned...
2017-07-21 (first published: 2017-07-11)
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Upcoming Full-Day SSIS Class in Dallas
This year I’ve delivered my full-day Building Better SSIS Packages course a half dozen times across the country, but I...
2017-07-21
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Add new articles to existing Transactional Replication without initializing old articles
Suppose, you have Transactional Replication configured in your production environment. There is a business requirement to add a new article to the...
2017-07-20 (first published: 2017-07-10)
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Azure SQL Data Sync 2.0
Azure SQL Data Sync has been ignored for quite some time, but has finally gotten an update (it’s in public...
2017-07-20
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Back to the Big Easy and SQL Saturday #628 in Baton Rouge
I’ve been fortunate enough to get to the Baton Rouge SQL Saturday a number of times. I think I’ve been...
2017-07-20
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How to Use SQL Temporal Tables For Easy Point-In-Time Analysis
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Have you ever needed to look at what data in a table used to look like?
If you have, it probably took a knuckle-cracking filled...
2017-07-20
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Installing the Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 Provider for Both 64-bit and 32-bit Processing
I recently got a new laptop and had to go through the ritual of reinstalling all my programs and drivers....
2017-07-20
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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
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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Question of the Day
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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