Communications: Three Questions
The better skilled we are communications, the more likely we will be understood. Whether we're talking work colleagues or our families and friends, being understood is more important than...
2025-07-28
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The better skilled we are communications, the more likely we will be understood. Whether we're talking work colleagues or our families and friends, being understood is more important than...
2025-07-28
64 reads
herefore, from Northwind and pubs to WideWorldImporters, I've compiled where to get those databases and what you need to know in order to use them yourselves.
2025-07-21
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In my YouTube subscriptions feed, a new video for the Azure Cloud Chronicles with Microsoft MVPs channel popped up and when I went to it, I noticed that the...
2025-07-08
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I will be back in Seattle this year attending the 2025 PASS Data Community Summit. This will mark my fourth year attending the Summit (I also attended one year...
2025-06-27
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When I watched the following video from Justin Sung, I realized that I am often guilty of the two problems he cites with regards to making my schedule work...
2025-06-26
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Instead of teaching the CISA exam prep course, I'm teaching in the IT track. With Artificial Intelligence (AI) being a central focus in most audit and security tracks, I'm...
2025-06-25
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I may think I'm trying to reach the crowd, but I'm really trying to reach each person within the crowd. The "crowd" doesn't actually exist.
2025-07-11 (first published: 2025-06-24)
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I didn't have these in my slides for the Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference, but brought them up the web browser during the presentation. If you're looking at...
2025-06-27 (first published: 2025-06-09)
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Erin West gave the keynote for the 2025 Techno Security & Digital Forensics East conference on cyber scams. How bad is it? Well, according to the Internet Crime Complaint...
2025-06-20 (first published: 2025-06-06)
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I always try and ensure that I post my slides to my talks here on my blog. Here are the slides that I used for my Quantum Computing and...
2025-06-05
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By Steve Jones
This value is something that I still hear today: our best work is done...
By gbargsley
Have you ever received the dreaded error from SQL Server that the TempDB log...
By Chris Yates
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept. It is here, embedded in the...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Planning for tomorrow, today -...
We have a BI-application that connects to input tables on a SQL Server 2022...
At work we've been getting better at writing what's known as GitHub Actions (workflows,...
I try to run this code on SQL Server 2022. All the objects exist in the database.
CREATE OR ALTER VIEW OrderShipping AS SELECT cl.CityNameID, cl.CityName, o.OrderID, o.Customer, o.OrderDate, o.CustomerID, o.cityId FROM dbo.CityList AS cl INNER JOIN dbo.[Order] AS o ON o.cityId = cl.CityNameID GO CREATE OR ALTER FUNCTION GetShipCityForOrder ( @OrderID INT ) RETURNS VARCHAR(50) WITH SCHEMABINDING AS BEGIN DECLARE @city VARCHAR(50); SELECT @city = os.CityName FROM dbo.OrderShipping AS os WHERE os.OrderID = @OrderID; RETURN @city; END; goWhat is the result? See possible answers