The Tweetup
An interesting experiment from Microsoft tonight. They brought 8 or 9 bloggers/press people from around the country to Redmond for...
2010-04-09
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Blog Posts
Thoughts on ORM
I’ve posted before about issues I’m having either with behaviors of nHibernate, or behaviors of teams using nHibernate, but I...
2010-04-09
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A 96 hour meeting
I didn’t think about it this way, but it made perfect sense after I read an essay. Recently my team...
2010-04-08
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A DMV a Day – Day 8
We have two related DMVs for Day 8. The first one is sys.dm_fts_active_catalogs, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information...
2010-04-08
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A Good Expansion on the Topic of Plagiarism
In a previous post I gave some links which help explain what plagiarism is and how to generally avoid it....
2010-04-08
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Data-Driven Subscriptions at OPASS
Six months ago, I spoke at a SQLSaturday in Orlando, Florida. I had a great time. Andy Warren (Blog | Twitter),...
2010-04-08
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Early Planning for SQLSaturday Orlando 2010
I did an hour or so call with Jack Corbett recently to review what we hope to accomplish this year....
2010-04-08
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Q1 - review
I didn’t post my professional goals for the year on my blog at the start of this year, my blog...
2010-04-08
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Spring Training 2010
Life was busier than I would have liked this year, but made it to one game, Braves vs Tigers, for...
2010-04-08
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SQL University Starting Back Up
Jorge Segarra's ( @SQLChicken) excellent community idea, SQL University, is starting back up next week. This is effectively free training on...
2010-04-08
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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
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...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
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