Poll
If you haven't seen it, I started a poll in the editorial today. Check it out and give you answer:...
2005-11-11
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Day Zero
Today's the day!!!
SQL Server is being released as I type this and I'm online listening to the keynote from Steve...
2005-11-07
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Boycott Sony
In general I have been a Sony fan for most of my life, starting with the Walkmans they brought out...
2005-11-04
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Looking For Technical Editors
If anyone is interested, we are looking for people that are interested
in doing some technical editing for our magazine, the...
2005-11-02
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The Plame Saga...
Living in the D.C metro area it is difficult to avoid politics,
policies and policy-makers. After 9/11 it became well nigh
impossible ...
2005-10-28
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It's Done
I wrote the editorial today about this, but SQL Server 2005 RTM'd yesterday!!!
If you an on MSDN Subscriber, you can...
2005-10-28
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The Great Uproar and some advice
My editorial
this past week had to do with a great uproar on the interviewing piece
that ran Monday. I felt I...
2005-10-20
1,452 reads
On vacation!
It was busy at work after returning from PASS which means my work day continued for 2 or 3 hours after I got...
2005-10-16
1,295 reads
Something About Nothing: NULL
You wouldn’t think that “nothing” would cause so many problems. But seriously, understanding how to correctly use NULLs is a...
2005-10-16
1,391 reads
Blogging Is Hard
Why is that? My Database Daily editorial for this week focuses on that and I thought it would be interesting...
2005-10-14
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Blogs
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...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
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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