Research: Don’t Offshore Your R&D #outsourcingdoesntwork
Many of you knew this as common sense but a new paper suggests the costs outweigh the benefits.
from HBR.org http://ift.tt/1dUIwOD
2014-02-12
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Big Data Success May Rely on Hiring the Right Skill Sets #bigdata #hr
Five Tips to Improve Your Data Analysis
It’s no secret that Big Data’s real challenge may not be the technology, but...
2014-02-12
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Time Management: Strategies for CEOs and CFOs In the Midmarket
Time management resources for CEOs and CFOs
1. “An Approach To Developing People.”
One way to gain more time is to properly...
2014-02-12
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New Talent Onboarding at Drexel Building Supply: A Case Study #hr
Studies show a strong connection between three critical talent metrics — productivity, retention, and engagement — and how well a company addresses...
2014-02-12
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A Rickety Stairway to SQL Server Data Mining, Part 15, The Grand Finale: Custom Data Mining Viewers
By Steve Bolton
…………As mentioned previously in this amateur self-tutorial series on the most neglected component of Microsoft’s leading database server...
2014-02-17 (first published: 2014-02-11)
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Risking Health, Life and Family
Since announcing the topic last week for T-SQL Tuesday, I have thought about many different possibilities for my post. All of them would have been really good examples. The...
2014-02-11
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Risking Health, Life and Family
Since announcing the topic last week for T-SQL Tuesday, I have thought about many different possibilities for my post. All...
2014-02-11
836 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #51: Is this a bet worth making?
On the second Tuesday of each month, the SQL Server universe all comes together to blog about a topic. Known...
2014-02-14 (first published: 2014-02-11)
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Scalar functions can be the hidden boogie man
Ran across a comment the other day that scalar functions prohibit parallelism for a query when included. I thought it...
2014-02-11
860 reads
175 Analytic and Data Science Web Sites #bigdata #freedata #analytics #datascience
Following is a list (in alphabetical order) of top domains related to analytics, data science or big data, based on...
2014-02-11
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Blogs
Announcements from the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference — Barcelona 2026
By James Serra
Microsoft shared a broad set of Fabric, Power BI, and SQL updates at FabCon...
Au Revoir for now
By Steve Jones
No, I’m not quitting or retiring. Just going on vacation, but I leave tonight...
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The Empty Aggregate
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Question of the Day
The Empty Aggregate
I have this table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[CustomerOrder] ( [OrderID] [int] NULL, [CustomerID] [int] NULL, [total] [money] NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] GOWhat is returned from this code? (answers are for the sum and then the count)
SELECT SUM(total) AS sum,
COUNT(total) AS count
FROM dbo.CustomerOrder;
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