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We had a blizzard on Tuesday in Denver. Apr 24 and we got nearly a foot of snow out at...
2007-04-25
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Keeping Skills Up-to-Date and Discoverability
One thing is always certain about information technology: there is always change. This past week I was pitching in on...
2007-04-23
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Book: Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard
I just finished the book Brute
Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard by Matt Curtin. It covers the work of...
2007-04-16
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Midlands PASS - April 5, 2007 Presentation posted
The presentation How to Be a Consultant has been posted to the Midlands PASS Chapter website. The presentation was given...
2007-04-15
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Post SP2 Fixes
I saw Brian's post on Microsoft's post on post sp2-fixes. Say that 10 times quickly.
They do a good job explaining...
2007-04-13
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Not 4GB
Windows doesn't see 4GB. If you have a 32bit OS with 4GB of RAM, Windows can't see it all.
I saw...
2007-04-13
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The Final Word on SQL Server 2005 SP2?
Bob Ward posted on the PSS SQL Server Engineers blog a fairly long post on SP2 and the hotfixes thereafter:...
2007-04-11
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New Tool: ApexSQL Audit Viewer
ApexSQL has announced a new viewer tool for ApexSQL Audit. ApexSQL Audit does a lot of the dirty work of...
2007-04-11
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Thoughts from Never Eat Alone
Watching a Chefograpy on Giada De Laurentiis, I learned that she was considered very much an introvert and had a...
2007-04-10
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More information about SQL Server 2005 and SP2
SQL Server MVP Aaron Bertrand has posted an update (April 6, 2007) on the version numbers of post SP2 hotfixes....
2007-04-09
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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
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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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