Tips for Presenters
I haven't seen a lot of sessions at the 2007 Summit, but I did go through 4 or 5 across...
2007-09-21
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Blog Posts
Day 1 at the Summit
I was late, not getting up quick enough and then fighting traffic into the city. From there I did a...
2007-09-19
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Notes from PASS 2007 - Part 2
Denver is a great location for a conference. The convention center is two blocks from the 16th street mall - must...
2007-09-19
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Technical Speaking - Again
One of the points mentioned in the volunteer meeting on Tuesday was that it makes a lot of sense to...
2007-09-19
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THE Reception
After the PASS opening, which I dropped in long enough to get a beer, we had the SQLServerCentral.com party.
It seemed...
2007-09-19
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Notes from PASS 2007
I attended the morning portion of the volunteer/chapter meeting today and got to put some names with faces for some...
2007-09-18
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Technical Speaking - Some Misc Thoughts
Last week I taught 'Successful Technical Speaking' for the first time - it's a free four class I put together for...
2007-09-17
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Training
I'm kind of stunned. I have asked 6 people to go to the PASS conference over the last 4 days...
2007-09-17
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Off to the PASS Summit in Denver
I'm flying out tomorrow for the event and looking forward to it, nice break from the office/work routine, a chance...
2007-09-16
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$4
So I got a final count of referrals from the PASS conference yesterday and it was 183, so thanks to...
2007-09-14
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Blogs
Who Are You Doing It For?
By Brian Kelley
But as I've matured over the years, I came to realize that I needed...
Presenting Twice in May 2026
By alevyinroc
I will be presenting my latest session, Documenting Your Work for Worry-Free Vacations, in-person...
Finding the Next Sequence Value: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I saw a question asking about the next sequence value and decided to try...
Forums
DB Design Methods
I've read a few posts regarding what we use to design DB models and...
Auto Update Statistics not triggering on filtered indexes
I've got a table with 186,703,969 rows, about 300GB of data. There are several...
What is the difference between SQL Server and SQL Database?
I created a SQL Database in Azure Portal but I've just noticed it also...
Question of the Day
An Unusual Identity
What values are returned when I run this code?
CREATE TABLE dbo.IdentityTest2
(
id NUMERIC(10,0) IDENTITY(10,10) PRIMARY KEY,
somevalue VARCHAR(20)
)
GO
INSERT dbo.IdentityTest2
(
somevalue
)
VALUES
( 'Steve')
, ('Bill')
GO
SELECT top 10
id
FROM dbo.IdentityTest2 See possible answers