Reblog: July 4 to July 10
Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot
Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years,...
2014-07-11
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Blog Posts
Speaker of the Month, July 2014
Another month another bunch of great presentations. I almost don’t want to do this any more. It’s hard. I sit...
2014-07-11
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"What You Need To Know About Being a DBA and What You Need To Know That You Don’t Know Yet"
Last night was a big success for the first annual Baton Rouge User Groups Networking Night, an all-user-groups invited event...
2014-07-10
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Azure HDInsight – Hadoop in the Cloud
Azure HDInsight Overview
HDInsight is a cloud based implementation hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud. It enables you to quickly create,...
2014-07-10
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db_ddladmin and the SSMS table designer
If you want to grant a user the ability to create/alter/delete any table, SP, function etc in a database you...
2014-07-10
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2014
Since I have been involved with and eventually head of the Baton Rouge SQL Saturday planning committee each year since...
2014-07-10
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A Few More Thoughts on Summit Session Selection & Growing Speakers
Last week ended up better than expected when PASS decided to release feedback to speakers (selected or not) who requested...
2014-07-09
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Overview of Published Articles – 2014Q2
Here is an overview of the articles I published in the second quarter of 2014.
Intense School
MCSE Prep: The Integration Services...
2014-07-09
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SSIS Column Export-Question of the Day
An SSIS question! How’s that for a change of pace? SSIS Column Export is, as you might well surmise, about...
2014-07-09
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Time for a change in career
A few months back I made the decision to leave the relative comfort and security of my permanent role and...
2014-07-09
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers