Midlands PASS January 2007 Meeting Minutes
January 4,
2007 Meeting Minutes: Members in
Attendance: 15Next Meeting
Date: February 1, 2007 Job
Board: I had a consulting
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2007-01-05
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Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting for January
Our next meeting will be
on Thursday, January 4, 2007, at 6:30 PM. It'll be at the Training Concepts
facility...
2006-12-29
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Setting Goals for the New Year and Beyond
I've never been a big fan of "New Year's Resolutions" for the same reason most other folks are against them:...
2006-12-29
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Phone books and Indexes
On Wednesday I gave a presentation to the St. Louis Visual Basic.Net user group. I really enjoy speaking to this...
2006-12-22
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SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER
We recently received a script for a modified stored proc from a vendor. My colleague ran the script on the...
2006-12-15
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The Moto Q and Being Proactive
I am a big fan of automating whatever I can and being proactive. The more proactive you can be, the...
2006-12-14
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How to handle an invalid default database
My general recommendation for SQL Server service accounts and accounts that have sysadmin fixed server role membership is to default...
2006-12-11
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Midlands PASS Chapter is official
A group of us met on Thursday, December 7th, 2006, and voted to approve the bylaws and a motion to...
2006-12-11
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Jason Haley recently began posting his interesting finds again
Jason Haley used to post his Interesting Finds about every day, if not multiple times a day. The interesting finds...
2006-12-09
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Windows 2000 Resource Kit Tools Available
If you're like me and rely a lot on the resource kit tools, you may have found that it's relatively...
2006-12-09
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