We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend
This weekend, I had the unique opportunity to donate some time to a worthwhile charity organization. Through the efforts of...
2008-01-21
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Blog Posts
Learning to Blog via Books
I was chatting with a friend recently and in the course of 'what are you up to lately' I mentioned...
2008-01-20
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Connecting to a Reporting Services Model
There's always been some confusion about models in Reporting Services, many people ignore them thinking that they are only for...
2008-01-18
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Free Ebook Chapter(Book) - Introducing SQL Server 2008
Saw it mentioned in the recent MSPress newsletter, Peter DeBetta is writing Introducing SQL Server 2008 and right now Chapter...
2008-01-18
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MS Making .Net Framework Source Code Available
Scott Guthrie posted the announcement on his blog today. It's a 'read only' license with a few other limitations, but...
2008-01-17
755 reads
MVP Chat
My first MVP chat was today, a monthly hour long session where we have a Microsoft representative and we all...
2008-01-17
721 reads
Partitioning Part 4 Posted on SSC
Partitioning Part 4 concludes the series with a look at 'real' partitioning in SQL 2005 Enterprise Edition. Overall the series...
2008-01-17
555 reads
The Interviewer is Wrong
Michael Coles had an interesting post about a job interview a friend went on. The person answered questions correctly, but...
2008-01-17
880 reads
Sun Acquires MySQL
Just posted on Jonathan Schartz's blog. They've definitely been playing more in the open source arena, now they've got a...
2008-01-16
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Two Acquisitions of Note
Saw both of these on ComputerWorld:
Oracle buying BEA
Sun buying MySQL
It'll be interesting to see how this changes the...
2008-01-16
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Blogs
When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages
By John
Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be. Two...
Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4
By Brian Kelley
In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...
Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop
By Steve Jones
I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether...
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CAST datetimeoffset(7) as a datetime in UK format
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what are the downsides of TDE not running vs running?
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Help! MEMORY_ALLOCATION_EXT wait stalls
Hi I have an overnight process that moves allot of claims records Been working...
Question of the Day
Putting the Player with the Number
In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?
DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix', @num VARCHAR = '10' SELECT @player || @numSee possible answers