Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS
Steve Jones recommended this one to me. It starts at the very beginnings of UPS and goes through pretty much...
2009-01-05
399 reads
Blog Posts
Investing In Yourself
I've always been in favor of investing in things that I think will benefit me long term, but all investments...
2009-01-05
1,576 reads
Kindle Review – Back To Paper
I’ve had my Kindle now for about 3 1/2 months and I have to say that I really like it....
2009-01-05
1,050 reads
Orlando DotNetNuke User Group Meeting on Jan 6, 2009
My friend Will Strohl leads this group and asked for help getting the word out. I'm planning to attend.
URL:http://orlando.dotnetnukeug.net/WhatsNew/Events/tabid/91/ctl/Details/Mid/428/ItemID/16/Default.aspx?selecteddate=1/6/2009
Speaker: Stan...
2009-01-05
359 reads
SSIS – CHECKSUM Transformation
CHECKSUM is a TSQL function that computes a hash value over a list of arguments. The great thing about creating...
2009-01-05
20,731 reads
The Story of The Aquarium Stand
Last year we acquired a small aquarium for my daughter, and then upgraded to a whopping 10 gallon tank. Turned...
2009-01-05
4,018 reads
DBA Mission and Vision Statement
There is a saying that "The important is often not
urgent and the urgent not important". I could not agree more...
2009-01-03
18,307 reads
SQL 2008 Row and Page compression – or SQL 2005 (post SP2) vardecimal conversion
One of the great new features in SQL 2008 is Row and/or Page Compression. Plus, still good news for those...
2009-01-02
1,762 reads
How Certification Can Help You Stay Current with Technology, as well as Continuing Your Education
If you'd like to keep up with your profession as a SQL DBA, I thoroughly recommend certification. It has certainly...
2009-01-01
1,984 reads
Meeting Goals
I'm not a big goals person. I think it's a good idea to set goals, and they can help you,...
2009-01-01
445 reads
Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #193 – A Note to Your Past, and a Warning from Your Future
By DesertDBA
I haven’t posted in a while (well, not here at least since I’ve been...
Keeping MS Docs Up to Date
By Steve Jones
One of the things that I like about the SQL Server docs (MS Learn...
Patch Tuesday – Where to get more information
By Brian Kelley
For a number of years I have subscribed to Randy Franklin Smith's Patch Tuesday...
Forums
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to the 1st 21 rows?
is there a no code way to limit an ssis extract from excel to...
Pivot but preserve all rows on Aggregate column
Hello Need help in pivoting this data set, the Pivot takes MIN/MAX on a...
any reason to avoid asking ssis to extract files from ftp
hi we have to replace talend which generally was used to move files. talend's...
Question of the Day
What is the PRODUCT
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
CREATE TABLE Numbers ( n INT) GO INSERT dbo.Numbers ( n ) VALUES (1), (2), (3) GO SELECT PRODUCT(n) FROM dbo.NumbersSee possible answers