PASS Update #32 (Spring Event & May 2010 Minutes)
If you download the May 2010 minutes of the Board meeting (login required) you’ll see that we devoted an entire...
2010-05-21
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Plagiarized or Copied
Today I ran into an interesting website. While I was trying to locate information concerning a SQL Saturday event, I...
2010-05-20
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Plagiarized
Today I ran into an interesting website. While I was trying to locate information concerning a SQL Saturday event, I...
2010-05-20
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What 5 things should SQL Server get rid of?
Paul Randal (Blog|Twitter) recently kicked off this meme by listing the 5 things he thinks SQL Server should get rid of....
2010-05-20
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Using PATINDEX to Split Column Data
A colleague of mine received an Excel file that he needed to load into a table for future lookup values....
2010-05-20
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New SQL Standard Article
A new article for the SQL Standard is now available. You can find the article here. The article is by...
2010-05-20
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PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 3: Providers, PSDrive
Providers What are Providers? Providers in PowerShell are a hierarchical namespace way flattening out an infrastructure to make it accessible and traverse-able just like a directory structure hard drive....
2010-05-20
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PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 3: Providers, PSDrive
Providers
What are Providers? Providers in PowerShell are a hierarchical namespace way flattening out an infrastructure to make it accessible and...
2010-05-20
1,283 reads
PowerShell Week at SQL University – Post 3
Providers
What are Providers? Providers in PowerShell are a hierarchical namespace way flattening out an infrastructure to make it accessible and...
2010-05-20
812 reads
SQL Server MasterClass – London
Further to my post on May 18th regarding the above event – I have been able to secure a further £50...
2010-05-20
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Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
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Car Update: August 2026
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Microsoft Fabric OneLake Shortcuts: When to Use Them and When Not To
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An architecture scenario Imagine separate Sales, Finance, Shared Data, and Executive Analytics workspaces. Sales...
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Backing Up a DMK
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