Try a Database Design Exercise At Your Next SQL User Group
Tried something different for the January 2013 meeting of the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group (brssug.org), which meets every...
2013-01-10
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SQL Saturday #198 Feb 16, 2013
SQL Saturday 198, http://www.sqlsaturday.com/198/ ; is coming to Vancouver Feb 16 this year. As of now, 56 sessions are collected from...
2013-01-09
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Determining Default Trace Location
While working on some scripts against SQL Server’s default trace, I wanted to develop a sure fire way to find...
2013-01-09
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January S3OLV 2013
I hope you are ready for some free SQL learning. Coming up on Thursday January 10th at 6:30 PM Pacific (GMT – 8 ) we will have a stellar...
2013-01-09
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January S3OLV 2013
I hope you are ready for some free SQL learning. Coming up on Thursday January 10th at 6:30 PM Pacific...
2013-01-09
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What Queries From The Application Do To Your Plan Cache
Usually, a database is meant to serve some kind of application, and .Net applications have a few possible ways to query...
2013-01-09
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A Learning Experiment
I’ve been looking for ways to improve the way I do my job, which is mostly writing and editing, but...
2013-01-09
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Day 9 of 31 Days of Disaster Recovery: Use All the Checksums
31 Days of Disaster Recovery
Welcome to day 9 of my 31 Days of Disaster Recovery series. Today, I want...
2013-01-09
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#SQLMaiden 2013 dates
Some time back at a SQL Server user group in Southampton I was speaking to an MVP called Simon Sabin...
2013-01-09
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Plans for 2013
I have lists. Lots of lists. I even have them in different locations sometimes. Some of them are carefully written...
2013-01-09
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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
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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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