N Things Worth Knowing About CTEs
If you haven’t messed with them yet, you should know that CTEs (Common Table Expressions) - new in SQL Server 2005...
2010-08-26
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SQL Awesomesauce
N Things Worth Knowing About SELECT
SELECT is this kind of Swiss Army Knife
SELECT is our bedrock, our foundation, our now-and-forever T-SQL multitasker…and it’s one of the...
2010-08-23
1,222 reads
Random Fun – Password Rules Cheatsheet
Piggybacking tangentially off of Tim Mitchell’s (blog, Twitter) SSC editorial Turn a Bad Job into a Good Experience…yesterday I got...
2010-08-17
669 reads
Tip: Change Multiple Field Formats in SSRS
One of the things about SSRS that irritates me is that in the graphical editor, you have to set the...
2010-08-13
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Tip: Connect to dBASE files in SSIS
This has come up several times in the course of the last TWO jobs, so I’ll put it here for...
2010-08-12
760 reads
24 Hours of PASS: Like Bacon for Chocolate
24HOP: Like Bacon for Chocolate
24 Hours of PASS is hip, it’s new…it’s serialized.
The September 15-16 24HOP is a sneak peek...
2010-08-11
681 reads
How to Attend a Tech Conference
I’m absolutely positive that I’m not the first to blog on this topic, but I haven’t seen anyone else say...
2010-08-04
936 reads
The Right Level of “Right”
…or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
I had a SQL dev’s dream come to me via...
2010-07-28
904 reads
Hi, my name is SA
Hi! I’m SA! I’ll be your mentor during your stay at Innitrode! Actually, I’m everyone’s mentor here…anytime someone needs some...
2010-07-20
573 reads
Blogs
Giving AI Agents Visibility Into SQL Server with MCP
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an...
The Book of Redgate: Profits
By Steve Jones
Redgate is a for-profit company. We look to make money by building and selling...
Session Materials for Techorama & DataGrillen 2026
I’ve uploaded the slides for my Techorama session Microsoft Fabric for Dummies and my...
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