Working in solitude
If you've spent much time at all reading Steve Jones's blog posts and SSC editorials, you quickly glean that he...
2007-07-12
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Buy a $10 Raffle Ticket to Help Katie
Not a happy story, but if you've got a child I suspect it will be easy to decide to buy...
2007-07-12
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The Business of Software
It's interesting being at a software company, especially one that's
building on another platform. I've never done this before, having
worked for...
2007-07-12
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Reminder: Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting Tomorrow Night
What: Midlands PASS Chapter July Meeting
Where: Training Concepts (250 Berryhill Road, Suite 502, Columbia, SC)
When: 6:15-8:00 PM
Speaker: SQL Server MVP...
2007-07-11
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Upgrade or Wait
Lots of debate and disagreement on my recommendation to wait for SQL
Server 2008 instead of upgrading to SQL Server 2005...
2007-07-11
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SQL Server 2008
Just when I was about to start a pool for the release date, Microsoft announced today it will release on...
2007-07-10
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The Business of Publishing
Despite my casual approach to the editorials and my job, this is still
something of a business and Red Gate wants...
2007-07-10
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DDL Triggers and CREATE_LOGIN/ALTER_LOGIN
I've been doing a lot with DDL triggers in the last week or so and pulling out the relevant information...
2007-07-09
1,154 reads
CTEs and where have I been?
I haven't posted much lately, but it has been a busy few months with many family activities. At work, I...
2007-07-09
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Wiki For Books Online
Browsing MSDN this morning and saw the note that they now have Wiki support. If done well it could be...
2007-07-09
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Blogs
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Finding Gaps in Sequential Data...
Question of the Day
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
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