MS, kill Begin/End!
It's funny - sorta - how you become used to the quirks of the tools you. I try not to rant too...
2007-11-29
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Blog Posts
Why Don't People Go to Free Training?
I was having this discussion recently with Shawn Weisfeld, President of ONETUG and it's definitely a frustrating topic. As a...
2007-11-28
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Community Search vs Brute Force Algorithms
I was reading an interview with Jimmy Wales (the Wikipedia guy) in Selling Power magazine (I have ecletic reading preferences...
2007-11-26
1,353 reads
Google CIO and IT Strategy
CIO Magazine has a interesting article about Douglas Merrill, the CIO of Google. One of the things he dicusses in...
2007-11-26
1,689 reads
Passed 70-431
After putting it off for six months, I finally took - and passed - 70-431 yesterday. I know, I'm probably one of...
2007-11-25
1,434 reads
Honeypots in the Database
As a follow up to my post about Cesar Cerrudo's new whitepaper, earlier this month David Litchfield talked about putting...
2007-11-23
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Whitepaper on Malware to Attack Databases
Cesar Cerrudo of Argeniss Information Security has put out a new whitepaper (.pdf format), Data0: Next generation malware for stealing...
2007-11-23
1,964 reads
Buying a New Cell Phone
For the page 10 months or so I've been using a Samsung Blackjack, before that I used various Blackberries for...
2007-11-21
1,426 reads
Distributed Transaction Issue Msg 7391
I solved an "interesting" issue today. It is about distributed transaction. When I set up transactional replication with immediate updating...
2007-11-21
3,628 reads
Logging Server Reboots - What the Heck MS?
Maybe someone at MS can explain this; they have that nice dialog that comes up after a reboot where you...
2007-11-21
1,401 reads
Blogs
The Benefits of Teaching
By Brian Kelley
Even preparing for a class or seminar with set materials takes a lot of...
Power BI, Excel, OneLake – Dreams Do Come True!
By DataOnWheels
I can’t believe it’s finally here! A way to have Excel live in OneDrive...
The Book of Redgate: What Our Staff Says
By Steve Jones
This image is from 2010, and it goes along with my last post of...
Forums
Unlocking Data Transformation: My journey with dbt (Data Build Tool) on SQL Server
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Putting the Player with the Number
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Your Security Checkup
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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