The PASS Board of Directors Election
There has been some great discussion about the upcoming PASS Board of Directors election over on Brent Ozar’s blog. If...
2009-10-15
1,258 reads
More SQL Server 2008 Book Involvement
Last night, I received my hard-copy of Pro SQL Server 2008 Mirroring from APress. This book has a lot of...
2009-10-15
624 reads
A DBA's Role with Respect to Improving Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Performance
1linerForward: here's a webinar from Microsoft regarding this subject, the following is a summary of what was required to improve CRM performance.
Microsoft's...
2009-10-15
3,408 reads
Are you sticking to your goals? Do you know what they are?
I've engaged a little in the discussion on Matt Morollo's interview on Brent Ozar's blog. It made me go back...
2009-10-15
1,201 reads
Off-Hours Work: A Guide For Non-Managers
In my last post I talked about how I think managers should approach off-hours work with their teams. It's a...
2009-10-15
543 reads
SQL MVP Profile of the Week - Michael Coles
As we continue to get ready for the NY\NJ SQLSaturday User Group meeting this October 24, 2009, I had the...
2009-10-15
1,167 reads
SQL Lunch/Call for Speakers
Patrick Leblanc has started a new project called…SQL Lunch! The concept is to present a 30 minute topic every two...
2009-10-15
890 reads
Separating Out Indexes
I saw a post recently where someone was asking how to separate out all indexes from the data into a...
2009-10-15
917 reads
SNESSUG October Meeting
The Southern New England SQL Server Users Group’s October meeting was a bit sparsely attended with 7 attendees. The sponsor...
2009-10-15
711 reads
Live Writer Plugin for Amazon
Among the things I’m experimenting with this quarter is changing my book reviews to include an affiliate link to Amazon....
2009-10-14
318 reads
Blogs
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Slow - Linked server query
Hi I have this slow query that is pulling data from a linked server....
Too Many Choices
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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