Ask for something and when you get it no one uses it
There was a time when almost every Chapter leader were asking PASS to find a place where the leaders can...
2010-05-21
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Book Review: Currencies That Buy Credibility
I ordered a copy of Currencies That Buy Credibility ($14 @ Amazon) after a comment from author Tom Wanek on Twitter...
2010-05-21
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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
546 reads
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
618 reads
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
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Blogs
Paginated Reporting at Scale: Choosing the Right Microsoft Platform
By Rayis Imayev
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe..."— Roy Batty, Nexus-6 Replicant, Blade Runner (1982)(2026-Nov-08) Yep,...
The Book of Redgate: Fun with Images
By Steve Jones
We’ve celebrated our birthday many times at Redgate. In the Book of Redgate –...
Why companies use Palantir and how we help implement it in the Czech Republic
Discover how Palantir connects enterprise data, supports AI-driven decision-making and helps companies turn insights...
Forums
Pay for Performance
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Too Many Choices
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Table Partitioning in SQL Server: A Practical Guide to Managing Very Large Tables (VLDBs)
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers