Blog Update & Feedburner
Steve finally got the bugs worked out of the recent blog software upgrade and RSS should be available again. Note...
2008-01-03
448 reads
Blog Posts
End to End T-SQL!
After a couple of months of discussion, End to End Training has scheduled me to teach a two day beginning...
2008-01-03
470 reads
Getting Better at Time Management
One of the things I took from my overall performance last year is I need to get better at time...
2008-01-03
640 reads
SQLSaturday Tampa Call for Speakers
Just a reminder to anyone in the Tampa area, or willing to travel, that the call for speakers for the...
2008-01-03
237 reads
Why Participating in a Community is Important and Beneficial
Back in 2000 I began writing for swynk.com in hopes of learning more about SQL Server and beginning to make...
2008-01-03
6,197 reads
Congratulations to Bayer White - Connected Systems MVP
Just saw that Bayer posted a note confirming that he is a 2008 MVP. I met Bayer a couple years...
2008-01-02
183 reads
A New Year's Present
I awoke this morning, rather later than usual after a small get together with some friends, and came down to...
2008-01-01
704 reads
Congratulations to Steve Jones on MVP Status
Steve is a 2008 SQL Server MVP. Well deserved, I can think of few people more visible in the community...
2008-01-01
639 reads
Google Bigtable
Google has - and continues - to do some amazing things. It's easy to be awed by their products and their infrastructure,...
2008-01-01
458 reads
Vista Woes
So my DVD drive in the new laptop appeared to be dead. It didn't appear in the "Computer" list with...
2007-12-28
1,466 reads
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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