Baseball and Scheduling Your Vacation, and a Puzzle?
I saw an article in the newspaper titled How to Visit 30 Ballparks in 35 Days This Summer. I think...
2011-07-08
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My children never cease to delight me in all kinds of ways, but never more when they come up with some...
2011-07-08
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2011-07-08
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Re-blog – July 1-July 7
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-07-08
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Brute-force searching for data.
Today, I needed a way of searching through a database, any database, looking for a certain string. The procedure I...
2011-07-08
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Wife and kids are leaving for holiday (it’s not off-topic)
My wife and kids are leaving for holiday (without me). Bad thing is that I will miss them, good thing...
2011-07-07
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SQLDIY: Index Fragmentation Levels
Indexes, indexes, indexes my kingdom for an index! Well, something like that. Indexes are the single most important structure in...
2011-07-07
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The IF Statement in a T-SQL Query
I’ve seen quite a few posts from people asking how to do something like this:
SELECT
a.ID
, IF a.MyChar = 'A' THEN...
2011-07-07
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Maciej Pilecki Speaking at Space Coast UG on July 14, 2011
Just got an email from the Space Coast User Group that Maciej Pilecki (@DrHouseOfSQL) will be doing a presentation to...
2011-07-07
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PASS Update #59 (Run for the Board)
If it hasn’t happened already we should be close to beginning the election cycle for the 2012 election. Last year...
2011-07-07
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Blogs
Flyway Tips: Object History
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It’s a small change, but a handy one. Flyway Desktop (FWD) now includes the...
Car Update September 2026
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Software is hard. While I love our Lucid Gravity, I realize that they are...
Microsoft Tools for Making Data AI-Ready
By James Serra
Making Data AI-Ready, Part 2 (This is the second article in a three-part series...
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Looking for old SQL Server 1.x - 4.21 disks, manuals, boxes, etc.
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Checking the Error Log II
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Checking the Error Log II
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