24 (Hours of SQL Training Delivered to Your Computer)
The Spring 24Hours of PASS: Celebrating Women in Technology will be broadcast live on the intertubez on March 15 and 16...
2011-02-20
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Is CPU-Z Risky To Run on a Production Server?
There was a conversation on Twitter recently (with the #sqlhelp hashtag) about whether it was completely safe to run the...
2011-02-19
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SQL Saturday #70 - Columbia, SC 2011 Session Schedule Is Up!
As announced, we have posted our session schedule for SQL Saturday #70 - Columbia, SC. The event will be March 19, 2011...
2011-02-19
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What Should PASS Be? I Challenge You
PASS isn’t what it should be. I hear that a lot, and in many ways I agree with you. We’re...
2011-02-18
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Notes from the February 2011 MagicPASS Meeting
I attended the second meeting of MagicPASS (no web site yet) on Feb 16 at Stetson University in Celebration, FL....
2011-02-18
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PowerPointShell
I wanted to add a neat demo to my .NET Powers Activate! Form of PowerShell! presentation that would really demonstrate...
2011-02-18
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The Importance Of Managing Expectations
Have you ever taken a sip of sweet tea only to discover that it was soda instead? Eeww! What an eye-opening experience! Don’t misunderstand; I like soda. But when...
2011-02-18
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The Importance Of Managing Expectations
Have you ever taken a sip of sweet tea only to discover that it was soda instead? Eeww! What an...
2011-02-18
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Renumbering Rows in a Table Variable (or Table/Temp Table)
I was recently working on a data cleanup problem where I had to do lots of comparisons of one row...
2011-02-18
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SSWUG Free SSIS Expo – Today!
SSWUG Free Expo Event: Basic and Complex SSIS Features virtual conference is today! There’s a chance that you can probably...
2011-02-18
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Blogs
Demo for Parameter Sniffing and Memory Grant Feedback
Disclaimer: The following is built with Claude Code. Just need to justify my $100/mo...
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
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