T-SQL Tuesday #025 – Holiday Gifts
Tis the Season
It is the season for TSQL Tuesday. More importantly it is the season for giving and reflection. And...
2011-12-15 (first published: 2011-12-13)
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Blog Posts
Why Did You Start Blogging?
That’s easy, because Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) challenged me to……
Finding time to keep up with awesome blog content can be tough....
2011-12-15
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Why I Blog – #Meme15
A fellow blogger and SQL guy, Jason Strate (@stratesql) started a meme on Social Networking as a result of a...
2011-12-15
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Why I blog #Meme15
I’d seen various #meme tweets on twitter but it wasn’t until I saw this blog by John Sansom (Blog|Twitter) that...
2011-12-15
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Will You Buy Refurbished? Part 2
Yesterday I shared the small adventure of buying a refurbished laptop. While I was at Compusa looking at laptops I...
2011-12-15
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#SQLLove for my Mentor
In 1986, my big brother Jim accidentally encouraged me on my road to geekdom by purchasing an Apple][e, and later...
2011-12-14
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Adam answers your questions on YouTube
Folks,
There are many outlet s to get information on this year’s SQL PASS board of directors candidates. Including :
SQLPASS Election...
2011-12-14
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Codeplex: SSIS Community Tasks and Components
I recently bumped into this very exhaustive list of SSIS tasks, components and samples in CodePlex http://ssisctc.codeplex.com. The list is maintained by...
2011-12-14
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Contracting, SQL Server and gethynellis.com
A while back I started posting some contractor related articles.The articles were mainly for the those people that wanted to...
2011-12-14
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Data Mining
Data mining techniques can be used in virtually all business applications, answering various types of businesses questions. In truth, given...
2011-12-14
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Blogs
Finding Balance: Things Will Come Up
By Steve Jones
I have a presentation on finding balance in your career that got quite a...
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Forums
How to change the FDLaunch Error log file location
The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
what data type i should use for roversion col and can i use less than greater
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
Radius Latitude Longitude
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
Question of the Day
A Fun Computer Quote
Which movie featured this quote?
"All programs have a desire to be useful."Happy April Fools! See possible answers