Getting Your Worth the Struggles with Moving Ahead
I often get asked for advice on how to get started in a career as a DBA or in IT...
2014-12-19 (first published: 2014-12-10)
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Blog Posts
I am joining SQLskills
I am no longer just a SQLskills Insider, I am now a SQLskills employee. I have accepted an offer to...
2014-12-19
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Offer – Any e-book for $5
Packt Publishing are having a price drop bonanza over the Christmas period. You can get any e-book for just $5...
2014-12-19
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Quick Audio Switching
I’ve got a semi complicated desktop setup, with multiple monitors, lots of USB stuff, and a few ways to record...
2014-12-19
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Reblog: December 12 to December 18
Photo credit – Travis
Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...
2014-12-19
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SQL #55 – Data Types and Storage Reference
When we design a database, we usually need to do an estimate on the size of the database based on the...
2014-12-19
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Whats New 2014
Hey all, Continue to my whats New series, I am going through its new features and the more I am...
2014-12-19
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XQuery - Accessing the Attributes Axis
Working with a sequence of attributes in XQuery is fairly straight forward with the 'attribute' axis even if you don't...
2014-12-19
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Conferences & Presentations of 2014 in Review
Reviewing the year 2014, I can see that I have truly started improving my life by lowering the number of...
2014-12-18
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Nominated for the 2014 Tribal Awards
Just like last year, SQLServerCentral.com and Simple Talk are hosting the Tribal Awards. In their words:
The Tribal Awards, co-hosted by Simple-Talk and...
2014-12-18
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Blogs
Distance Metrics for Semantic Similarity Searches in SQL Server 2025
Next up in my series talking about The Burrito Bot is diving into the...
The end of an era – why I chose not to renew my MVP
By DataOnWheels
Two years ago, two things happened within a few days of each other. I...
PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script
By gbargsley
This is it. The final chapter of PowerShell Strikes Back. Over the past four...
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Unraveling the Mysteries of the Ephemeral Model: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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QUOTENAME Behavior
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QUOTENAME Behavior
I use QUOTENAME() like this in code?
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(20) = 'Steve Jones' SELECT QUOTENAME(@s, '>')What is returned? See possible answers