I am a Big Bro
The first time I did any volunteering work for PASS was last year at the Summit. I enjoyed doing it....
2011-08-15
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Blog Posts
MCM Training – Day 6 & 7
My whole weekend was dedicated to MCM studying, and I've reviewed a lot of stuff that
we have learned through the...
2011-08-15
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Micromanaging
Micromanaging is one of those words that evokes an instant negative image. Certainly there are times when it happens, but...
2011-08-15
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Notes from SQLSaturday #79
This was the third SQLSaturday in South Florida and the third time I’ve attended, just too good an event to...
2011-08-15
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Send DBMail
With SQL Server 2005, Microsoft improved the methods available for DBAs to send email from SQL Server. The new method is called Database Mail. If you want to send...
2011-08-15
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Send DBMail
With SQL Server 2005, Microsoft improved the methods available for DBAs to send email from SQL Server. The new method...
2011-08-15
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SQLPeople INSPIRE NYC - Coming this FALL - November 12, 2011
Nature abhors a
vacuum. So, when I see so many SQL
Server happenings going on all over the country, and indeed the...
2011-08-15
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Using Checksum in SSIS for Delta Loads
The checksum function in SQL is a great way to compare two rows to see if the data matches. The...
2011-08-15
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Using SSIS lookup transformation editor with millions of rows
If you are using a SSIS lookup transformation editor and the reference dataset is large (millions of rows) and you...
2011-08-15
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When Do You Take a Full Backup?
This series of blog posts are related to my presentation, The Top Ten Skills You Need, which is scheduled for...
2011-08-15
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Blogs
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
Creating a SQL Stored Procedure to Load a SCD2
By DataOnWheels
This is a blog that I am writing for future me and hopefully it’ll...
Funny Money: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
While wandering around the documentation looking for some Question of the Day topics, I...
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Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers