Ed Leighton-Dick has renewed his New Blogger Challenge this month. Here are all (I think) the posts for this week after Ed posted his announcement. If I’ve missed any, please let...
2015-11-05
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Spend any time around a 4 year old, and you will inevitably find yourself involved in a conversation which evolves into this:
Please do this thing Why? Reasonable answer Why? Restatement...
2015-11-04
6 reads
So you’ve decided that your new web application needs to record some page load time metrics so you can keep tabs on performance. Terrific! You set up a couple page load/complete...
2015-06-16
10 reads
Consider this the outtakes from my previous post about speaking at SQL Saturday.
It took a while for me to build up the courage to finally get up in the...
2015-06-02
6 reads
That is the first and last Katy Perry reference you will find on this blog or anywhere else in my life.
Last weekend I spoke at the 4th edition of my “home”...
2015-05-22
10 reads
Slides & demos from my SQL Saturday Rochester presentation “Easing into Scripting with Windows PowerShell” have been posted on the SQL Saturday site.
Thank you to everyone who came out for...
2015-05-19
8 reads
I’ll be presenting my session Easing into Scripting with Windows PowerShell this Saturday, May 16th at SQL Saturday Rochester.
SQL Saturday is a free, all-day event for learning about SQL Server and...
2015-05-15
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This week marks the end of Ed Leighton-Dick’s New Blogger Challenge. It’s terrific seeing everyone sticking with the challenge all month and I’m looking forward to catching up with all the...
2015-05-01
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We hear the common refrain among DBAs all the time. Back up your data! Test your restores! If you can’t restore the backup, it’s worthless. And yes, absolutely, you...
2015-04-29
9 reads
Here are the posts collected from week three of the SQL New Blogger Challenge. It’s been compiled the same way previous weeks’ posts were. Everyone’s doing a great job keeping up...
2015-04-24
9 reads
By James Serra
What problem is Fabric Ontology trying to solve? For years, most data conversations have...
By Steve Jones
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A...
By ChrisJenkins
There are some telltale signs that your growing business has outgrown Excel for your...
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When I use QUOTENAME(), I can optionally provide the character used to surround the string in the result. Can I use any character?
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