SQL Server Events in the UK – March 2013

Welcome to the first of what I plan to be a regular recurring theme. Right here I will list out...

Windows 8 – First Impressions on a Desktop

I bought a new (to me) desktop recently to replace my aging hardware. I’ve had a quad core machine, but...

Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 01/03/13

It’s SFTW Time, I hope you’ve had a great week!
Make sure you don’t miss this weekly round-up of SQL Server...

SQL BLOG: First Occurrence Of Character In a String

Scenario:
 We need to find the first occurrence of character ie non numeric data in the string without using the built...

YYYYMM Math

I had a project recently where I had to do math on a number that represented a date, YYYYMM.

For example,...

Presentation Materials “A Function is a Function”

Here are the presentation materials for today’s Pragmatic Works Training on the T’s session A Functions Is A Function – Comparison of...

Insert multiple values sets into a table in one command

The INSERT command has two distinct ways to load data into a table.
INSERT INTO Table (field1, field2) VALUES ('string1','string2')And
INSERT INTO...

A Month of PowerShell – Day 28 (Using Windows PowerShell Remoting)

Welcome to Day 28 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series – the last day. This series will use the series...

Dust Off That Resume

Since I started regularly attending SQL Saturday events some five years ago, I’ve sat in on a number of professional...

SQL BLOG: Using Triggers for creating history tables in SQL Server

Case Study:1)       We  need to track the employee table in terms of new records inserted along with the datetime stamp
2)     ...