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....

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...

The #Meme15 Round-Up

The first round of #meme15 has finished.  In total, there were eighteen people that participated.  If there were more, I...

ETL from Oracle to SQL Server

I was recently asked to provide some performance tuning recommendations for an ETL process that extracts data from Oracle using...

Explaining SQLSaturday

I wrote a while back about my coffee cup from SQLSaturday #100. I took it to work (where I usually...

Filtering in SSMS

Do you spend seconds, maybe even minutes trying to find things in SSMS?  Ever find yourself scrolling up and down thrown the tree trying to find that one specific...