Calculate Bitmasks In PowerShell
Have you ever had to calculate bitmasks on the fly? I have and still do. In this post, I’m going to show...
2013-02-19
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Using Team Foundation Service
Team Foundation Service (TFS) is the “cloud” version of Team Foundation Server 2012. Up to 5 users are free, plus for a...
2013-02-19
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A Month of PowerShell – Day 19 (Databases: Scalar Functions)
Welcome to Day 19 of my “A Month of PowerShell” series. This series will use the series landing page on...
2013-02-19
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Keep VMware snapshot growth from wrecking your day
VM snapshots are the best individualization feature since sliced vBread (yeah, I’m a geek). But…have you ever had a VMware snapshot grow...
2013-02-19
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Multitasking A Ridiculous Workload – How I Do It
I don’t! There’s no such thing as multitasking. At least, not how most of us think about it……
Being successful as...
2013-02-19
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The Performance Impact to Prefix Stored Procedures with sp_
Last week I ran across a blog post by Axel Achten (B|T) that outlined a few reasons why you should...
2013-02-19
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SQL Server – Finding out Database creation time
Finding database creation time is simple if database has not been detached from server. You can find database creation time...
2013-02-19
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SQL Saturday #198, Vancouver, BC Session Files
This past weekend was SQL Saturday #198 in Vancouver, B.C. It started off with a leisurely drive up to Vancouver...
2013-02-19
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Webcast “Value of Performing Wait Analysis” This Week with Pragmatic Works
Ever have your SQL Server slow down for reasons that you can’t explain? Or did you spend all night tuning...
2013-02-18
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Vote of our next SSIS Webinar
Our sessions were not chosen for neither SQLSaturday nor SQLBits but if you were interested; nothing is lost as now...
2013-02-18
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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...
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Negative and Positive Numbers
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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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