JULY 31: SQL Saturday 40
SQL Saturday #40 is quickly approaching and many are gearing up for the trip down there to hear some awesome...
2010-07-20
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Blog Posts
July OPASS Meeting Wrap up
Last Tuesday, July 13th, we had our monthly OPASS meeting. The meeting was sponsored by RedGate who were kind enough...
2010-07-20
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My Application to the PASS Board
The application form mentions that the quite a bit of what you include will be made public. While I won’t...
2010-07-20
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PASSMN July Meeting Today
Don’t forget the July PASSMN meeting is today. We have Itzik Ben-Gan (blog) coming in to talk about some query...
2010-07-20
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Raining Tuesday – Cricket Cancelled – Replication Stinks - SQL BITS VOTE NOW!
Well this was going to be replication post, but I have read it, re-written it, read it, re-written and it...
2010-07-20
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SQLBits 7
For those that may of missed it, voting for SQLBits sessions is now open. Make your voice heard and get...
2010-07-20
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SSIS - Event Handler Performance
Event handlers are a great tool for managing errors and other events that occur during the execution of a package...
2010-07-20
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Creating UDL Files On The Fly
Many years ago, in the dark ages of DTS I created a little app that would take two parameters and...
2010-07-19
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Finding Your Next Job
We’ve had a few people in the SQL community find jobs lately and many of them attributable to their network....
2010-07-19
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How to Deal with Quebec’s Extremists: Expose Their Malfeasance Publicly?
NB - to my regular blog readers, excuse the tangent here, but the local provincial extremists attempted something in my 'hood...
2010-07-19
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers