Minor Celebration
A little cheap thrill for me. I passed 50,000 views on the blog yesterday. Thanks to everyone who has stopped...
2009-09-30
1,391 reads
The old INNER JOIN syntax vs. the new INNER JOIN syntax
I was in a presentation last week where the presenter was talking about the ANSI/ISO SQL standards. For the most part the...
2009-09-30
47,130 reads
Heading Down to the Basement
I'm taking the next two days off, heading down into the basement for a four day weekend. Nothing particular going...
2009-09-30
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Idea for PASS Summit 2010 – Share Your Other Passions
I’ve had the glimmer of this idea since I posted about the idea of bringing my chair to the 2009...
2009-09-30
1,390 reads
TechEd Online Interview
Back in August at TechEd Africa I did a TechEd Online interview with Frikkie Bosch. Frikkie’s the marketing manager for...
2009-09-30
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On vs. Where
Does it matter if you put your criteria in the ON clause or the WHERE clause? Well, as with most...
2009-09-30
1,777 reads
Eliminating Empty Output Files in SSIS
So you’ve got some packages that regularly extract data to one or more text files, but you know that from...
2009-09-30
13,986 reads
Jack Corbett Now Co-President of oPASS
I’m late announcing this here, but I’m pleased to announce my friend Jack Corbett is joining me in leading oPASS...
2009-09-29
1,614 reads
More on the MVP SQL Server book
If you buy from Manning directly today or tomorrow, there’s a 50% discount . Use the code pop0928 at the checkout....
2009-09-29
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Impact of uninstall instance on replication.
Hi,Today While playing with replication and instance and DR strategy. Found very interested thing.so though to blog that.I have 6...
2009-09-29
1,666 reads
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