Volunteering
Recently I was visiting with an old acquaintance and one of the topics that came up was volunteers. At some...
2008-06-26
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Blog Posts
One Note - Part II
Apparently other people like One Note. Microsoft is using it for learning content, and I think that's a cool idea....
2008-06-25
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SQLSaturday Call for Speakers - Cleveland & Olympia
Call for speakers is open for SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia, WA on Oct 10 (note that the MS BI conference...
2008-06-25
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Employee or 1099?
My friend Wes Dumey does a lot of work in the business intelligence sector as a contract employee and has...
2008-06-24
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SSWUG Virtual Conference II
Today is day one of the SSWUG SQL Server Virtual Conference II. This has been really fun so far. Our...
2008-06-24
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Microsoft BI Conference Oct 6-8, 2008
Had missed the announcement, came up in conversation yesterday with a friend, the BI conference will be Oct 6-8 in...
2008-06-23
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Notes on My Visit to Birmingham SQL Group
Spent last Tues/Wed in Birmingham, speaking at the user group Tuesday night and then presenting a seminar on Wed. Attendance...
2008-06-22
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One Note
Lately I've been trying out a few new pieces of software to see how well they work. One is Twitter,...
2008-06-20
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Transparent, Translucent, or Opaque? Whats Your Strategy?
It's a couple weeks old, but there was a mild blog roar over some comments from Microsoft about wanting to...
2008-06-19
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Virtual Conference II
Check out the SSWUG Virtual Conference next week. Here is a link with more information: http://www.vconferenceonline.com/sswug/demo.asp . The first 200 people...
2008-06-19
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Blogs
A New Word: Ghough
By Steve Jones
ghough – n. a hollow place in your psyche that can never be filled;...
T-SQL Tuesday: Encryption and Data Protection
I have the honour of hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday. In case there’s any...
Parameterize your Databricks notebooks with widgets
Widgets provide a way to parameterize notebooks in Databricks. If you need to call...
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Community at PASS Summit
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ASCII value of certain column is null
When ASCII(Column) is null, what does it represent? Is this some kind of special/control...
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