Mea Culpa: TweetRandomizer-gate
If you’ve ever read Spider-Man or spent any sort of time around the Marvel Universe (movies included) you’ll have no...
2010-05-15
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Is Microsoft “years behind” in cloud apps?
Microsoft is associated almost exclusively with Windows and Office. Unfortunately a lot more...
2010-05-15
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Is Microsoft “years behind” in cloud apps?
Microsoft is associated almost exclusively with Windows and Office. Unfortunately a lot more innovation areas are not well known… Is Microsoft losing the cloud apps? Let me share with...
2010-05-15
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SQL Agent Visual Job Schedule Viewer
If you have experience with the SQL Server Agent you quickly realize the difficulty in managing job schedules. On a...
2010-05-15
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May 2010 S3OLV Meeting Recap
On the evening of May 13th, S3OLV held its monthly meeting. We had some really good discussion, and got to...
2010-05-14
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Tips from ...Rock Star DBA
Thomas LaRock (SQL Server MVP) (Blog | Twitter | LinkedIN), recently has published the new book DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Start...
2010-05-14
833 reads
Microsoft Certified Architect - Infrastructure and Solutions Are No More
A friend of mine had been out to the Microsoft Certified Architect site recently and noted that the Infrastructure and...
2010-05-14
1,968 reads
SSIS R2 Configuration File Issue Fixed
Using configurations files in SSIS is a great way to change how your package will run from outside the development...
2010-05-14
878 reads
Interviewed by Professional Development Virtual Chapter
Kathi Kellenburger, fellow MVP and friend, pinged me recently for an interview for the Professional Development Virtual Chapter. This is...
2010-05-14
1,631 reads
Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 7
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-05-14
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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