SQL Stickers–Someone Should Build It

Here’s a niche idea that someone might have some fun with, build a site where someone can request some or...

Thank You & Goodbye Publix

It's been a little quite here at SQLBalls.com Dear Reader, but business is about to pick up.  There are a...

A few quick time calculations

Have you ever needed to do a quick time calculations of the amount of hours/minutes/seconds that have passed? Suppose you...

A Script A Day - Day 1 - Database File To Volume Mapping

Today is the 1st February 2012 and as promised here is the first of script in my "A Script A Day"...

Atlanta MDF Presents Three Awesome Pre-Cons in Atlanta April 13, 2012

Atlanta MDF presents: SQL Saturday #111 Pre-Conference Sessions SQL Saturday is coming back to Atlanta on April 14, and once again, we’ve managed to schedule 3 awesome pre-con sessions...

CHECKSUM vs HashBytes

Hashing can be useful in Data Warehousing  as well  It can give you the ability to break large problems into...

Data Labels, Axis Interval, Rotate Label Text: SSRS Nugget

Charts present summary data in a visually appealing format. Following is a chart for sales over month:

Before
I frequently use a few...

DevConnections Offers DBAs Many Options for Training

As we have done for the last several years, SQLServerCentral.com will be offering its own track at SQL Server Connections...

February Question: If you weren’t a DBA, what would you like to do?

Sometimes its fun to think of what career you might have chosen if you hadn’t become a DBA. With this...

Learning, Networking & Wine

Let’s say, you want to spend a couple of days learning about SQL Server. You also want to spend some...