SmartPaster
I recently discovered this great little free Visual Studio Add-in that allows pasting text as preformatted strings in VB or...
2012-02-02
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New York City .NET
Case Sensitive searches in T-SQL
I just ran into an issue with one of my applications where a SQL statement had updated a status code...
2012-01-19
2,706 reads
Excel for the DBA, Part 1–The Basics
This will be a series of handy hints for people that know SQL and are frustrated by Excel. I am...
2011-12-06
2,113 reads
An Attempt to Make SSIS Package Deployment More Reasonable
Full disclosure: There might be a better way to do this. I am not aware of it.
Problems:
Maintaining multiple DB environments...
2011-11-03
1,466 reads
Save a step: Using Computed Columns in a Table Variable (or Temp Table)
One of the databases that I support reports all money values in both the local currency and US Dollars. Very...
2011-10-28
15,196 reads
Tobias Ternstrom’s Great Denali Preview
Tobias Ternstrom from Microsoft gave a great talk at Tech Ed regarding upcoming features of SQL Server Denali. His presentation...
2011-06-30
2,221 reads
The Recursive CTE
(Yet another boring org chart example – except this one has multiple roots)
One of my apps has a hierarchial org chart...
2011-05-18
1,689 reads
How to determine the current SSIS runtime environment
If you want to test if you’re currently debugging an SSIS package via BIDS/Visual Studio, or running normally via DTExec,...
2011-04-28
2,411 reads
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
4,300 reads
Creating a deep hierarchy with FOR XML
I have two tables in an application that I support. One is called [Report], and the other is [ReportParameter].
--SAMPLE...
2011-01-27
19,110 reads
Blogs
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
2025 Wrapped for Steve
By Steve Jones
I’ve often done some analysis of my year in different ways. Last year I...
Forums
reaching ftp thru winscp but erroring in ssis ftp task connection
Hi, below i show various results trying to reach our ftp site (a globalscape...
Finding Motivation
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The Last Binary Value of the Year
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Question of the Day
The Last Binary Value of the Year
What does this code return?
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