Notes from the May 12, 2009 oPASS Meeting
Our most recent meeting was May 12, 2009, and we had 23 attendees. We started off the evening with news...
2009-05-13
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Blog Posts
The Windows 7 RC Download Issue
A better explanation from the SQLCAT team in this blog entry. I’d still like to see more, but this makes...
2009-05-13
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To Date or Not To Date….
OK….so I’m in the middle of a very interesting Effective Dating project…basically we’re dealing with some tables that only store...
2009-05-13
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Windows 7 and the Hokey Pokey
I was watching the TechEd 2009 keynote the other day and there was a lot of time spent on Windows...
2009-05-13
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Miscellaneous Networking Thoughts
I'm still learning and experimenting on the networking side, thought I'd share a few things I've seen or tried lately....
2009-05-12
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PASS Update #10
It's been a slower pace since the last update. Grant and I are working on the publication process for content...
2009-05-12
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SQL Saturday Jacksonville Recap
Note: I intended to post this last week but life\work\burnout and installing Windows 7 RC got in the way.
Another weekend,...
2009-05-12
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SQL Server 2008 R2 - Release Announced
Hmm, SQL Server 2008 is completed everyday till possible new versioin. So know we have available the SQL Server 2008...
2009-05-12
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SQL Server Encryption - The Service Master Key
I've been tech editing a book about SQL Server encryption and this series of blog posts looks at some interesting...
2009-05-12
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SSC Comment on PASS Summit and Networking
SQLServerCentral had a press release today about attending the Summit and the networking opportunities, something that I've been blogging about...
2009-05-12
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Blogs
Using a tnsnames.ora file with the Microsoft Connector for Oracle in SSIS
One of the nice things about the Microsoft Connector for Oracle is that it...
ChatGpt Experiments–Getting Documentation
By Steve Jones
I get asked questions by salespeople all the time. Usually this is because a...
A New Word: Jouska
By Steve Jones
jouska – a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head –...
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puzzeled with "exec sp_cursor 180150007,40,1"
I've noticed in one of our applications a cursor uses operation 40 and that...
Not wanting to use a Cursor, but...
Ok, need someone to talk me off the cursor ledge on this one. I...
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