Is Pivot Worth it?
I’ve been trying to learn more about the T-SQL changes in SQL Server 2005/2008 over time. I don’t have requirements...
2010-05-11
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Blog Posts
Join the Community - AKA, "Where did he go, George?"
In recent days I've kind of dropped off the map with respect to SQL Server, including with the Security and...
2010-05-11
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May UG Meeting
This is just a quick note to remind any interested parties that the May S3OLV meeting will be held this...
2010-05-11
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Minutes of the April 2010 PASS Board Meeting Published
This was a phone meeting on April 8th, 2010, that covered:
Possibility of an online track at the 2010 PASS SummitDiscussion...
2010-05-11
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Minutes of the February 2010 Board Meeting Posted
Strangely we’ve had the March minutes up for many weeks, but just now getting the February minutes posted. This was...
2010-05-11
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Notes from the May 6th, 2010 oPASS Meeting
We moved to Thursday this month to line things up so that Dean Richards from Confio could do a presentation...
2010-05-11
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Put your left LOB in, put your left LOB out…
It’s time again for T-SQL Tuesday and this month the topic is LOB, or BLOB data. You can read more...
2010-05-11
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Recompiles and Constant Learning
When faced with a procedure that looks like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.TestProc (@TestValue INT)
AS
BEGIN
IF @TestValue = 1
BEGIN
SELECT *
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
JOIN Sales.SalesOrderDetail...
2010-05-11
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Simple Production Script Auditing Best Practices: Including Query in the Result Set
To make it easier for others to audit the results of a script you have run on current production servers,...
2010-05-11
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Some New DMV Queries for SQL Server 2008 R2
I was spelunking around in SQL Server 2008 R2 today, after looking at a PowerPoint presentation by Madhan Arumugam about...
2010-05-11
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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