Re-blog – December 16 – December 22

Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post.  The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...

SQL Saturday #104: Colorado Springs

January 8th, 2012 will be the first SQL Saturday for 2012. 104 SQL Saturdays is an amazing number for our...

SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): New Security Features

SQL Server 2012 has many new security features, and three of the bigger new features are: Default Schema for Windows Groups,...

SQL Server Sample Databases – All Versions

Many of you DBAs DB Devs and BI Devs in these days can have some changes from one SQL Server...

Tis The Season to be Giving...#SQLFamily

Indeed the Holiday Season is traditionally a season of giving, and being charitable to those who are less fortunate.  Although giving...

2011 What A Great Year

What A Diffrince A Year Makes
In January I posted up my new years list basically, stuff I wanted to learn in...

A SQL Server Christmas Card

Merry Christmas everyone!
DECLARE @hohoho char(100)
DECLARE @bells smallint
DECLARE @tiers smallint
DECLARE @maxtiers smallint

SELECT @hohoho = ' ', @tiers = 1, @bells = 1, @maxtiers = 6
PRINT @hohoho

WHILE @tiers...

CONCAT() string function–SQL Server 2012

As the name indicates, CONCAT() will concatenate two or more strings. This is one of the two string functions introduced in...

How many calls – A T-SQL Question

I got a call from a friend recently that was looking for some query help. He was actually using Access,...

PASS Summit 2011 Eval Results

My presentation on Professional Development Plans ended up being ranked 47th out of 190, with an overall score of 4.63....