One Year Blog Review
Just over a year ago I decided to start a blog and I put an item on my calendar to...
2008-07-06
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Blog Posts
Celebrating July 4th
I try to limit the number of truly off topic posts I do, but today is a special day in...
2008-07-03
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Midlands PASS Meeting - July 17 - SQL Server MVP John Welch
The Midlands PASS Chapter hosts:
SQL Server MVP John Welch
July 17, 2008 at Training Concepts
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold a...
2008-07-03
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INETA Champs Program
My friend Shawn Weiseld posted a note about the new INETA Champs Program. Looks interesting and is a nice step...
2008-07-02
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Is This a DBA Skill?
I saw an interesting note about how Intel is warning developers that they need to learn to program with multiple...
2008-07-02
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One More MVP (Doh!)
As expected, I forgot someone again in my MVP announcement. Last time I announced Kathi Kellenberger and Andy Leonard, forgetting...
2008-07-02
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Replication Error "memory mapped file read failed"
I was fighting an error that was very rare to appear. I originally put a post on a MS forum
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.sqlserver.replication&tid=57229124-0a5a-4ec3-9055-a06b7869b872&cat=&lang=&cr=&sloc=&p=1
The...
2008-07-02
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Growing New Speakers/How to Go National/PASS Needs a Policy
I commented in an earlier post about the challenges PASS has in trying to select a 100 or so speakers...
2008-07-01
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New MVPs
Today's the day that new MVPs are notified for Q3 and two longtime community members, Jeff Moden and Michael Coles,...
2008-07-01
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Quick and Dirty Code Compare
MS Word 2007 (and probably earlier versions) have the ability to do a basic document compare, useful if you're at...
2008-06-30
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Blogs
Parsing EXE Output in PowerShell
By Steve Jones
I saw a post internally that asked this question: Anyone have a handy powershell...
Connect With More Clients: Our Partner Directory Has Arrived
By Rob Sewell
The partner directory connects your agency with new customers.
Can You See Who Forced a Plan
I had an excellent group of people in Gothenburg Sweden when I taught there...
Forums
GIT Configuration and Automated Release for Azure Data Factory
Comments posted to this topic are about the item GIT Configuration and Automated Release...
Output to flat file with no delimiter
Hello all, Is there an easy way to output my records to a flat...
Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
Question of the Day
Concat Addition
What is the result of this code?
SELECT CONCAT(1, 2, 3) + 4See possible answers