Monthly profit percentage techniques
Introduction
A few days ago, a friend of mine approached me with an interesting challenge. What he was trying to achieve...
2013-10-30
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Winner – Conference Pass to SQL Server Live! in Orlando
This is a quick post to announce the winner of our competition for a FREE conference pass to SQL Server Live! in Orlando. Those rather nice folks at SQL Server Live are also offering SQL Brit...
2013-10-30
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Winner – Conference Pass to SQL Server Live! in Orlando
This is a quick post to announce the winner of our competition for a FREE conference pass to SQL Server Live! in Orlando.
Those rather nice...
2013-10-30
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I’m Attending SQLSaturday #248 in Tampa on Nov 9, 2013
I’ll be heading back to Tampa on November 9, 2013 for the BI Edition of SQLSaturday. I’ll be presenting PCI...
2013-10-30
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Interview With Rick Bolesta of the PASS Board of Directors
Rick Bolesta and Neil Buchwalter of CA technologies are leaving the Board at the end of 2013. CA and Microsoft...
2013-10-30
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Adding a column to a table with a default (NULL vs NOT NULL)
There are lots of ways to learn new things, or be reminded of old things. One of my favorites is...
2013-11-05 (first published: 2013-10-30)
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Virtualization for SQL Server DBAs – New SQL Saturday Pre-Con Session
Today I am officially announcing the launch of my first all-day SQL Saturday Pre-Conference training session entitled “Virtualization for SQL...
2013-10-30
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First take on PowerPivot
What is PowerPivot for Excel? PowerPivot brings the power of Data Modelling into your PC. Traditionally, the DataWarehouse is built...
2013-10-30
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Is There Interest in SQL Server Security Pre-Cons?
I’m very passionate about security, especially database security. As the numbers with regards to data breaches continue to climb, this...
2013-11-05 (first published: 2013-10-30)
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 14.5: The Predict Method
By Steve Bolton
…………In order to divide the Herculean task of describing custom algorithms into bite-sized chunks, I omitted discussion of...
2013-11-04 (first published: 2013-10-30)
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Blogs
SSMS Is Getting Smarter—and This Isn’t Just About Writing SQL
Continuing with my takeaways from SQLCon and FabCon Europe in Barcelona, let’s talk about...
Yippee-Kai-Yay 2027 Summit in Denver
By Steve Jones
Next year the PASS Data Community Summit is in DENVER! and London, but Denver...
PASS Data Community Summit 2026
By Steve Jones
Yesterday was the first day of sessions at the PASS Data Community Summit (after...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Life hack that has worked well for me
I wrote about this several years ago but will contribute again a life hack...
Trying to make this faster using not exists
Hi I have this query that is slow during the 'not in' part of...
Question of the Day
Switching Schemas I
I run this query:
SELECT s.name AS schemaname , o.name AS objectname FROM sys.objects o INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON s.schema_id = o.schema_id WHERE o.name = 'Beer'I get one row back for an object named dbo.beer. There is an ETL schema and both of these are nonpartitioned tables. I run this code:
ALTER TABLE dbo.beer switch TO etl.beerWhat happens? See possible answers