Issues With Calculating Current Age Using DateDiff (Rounding?)
Recently I inherited a set of SSIS packages that did a pretty simple calculation for age.It used the following expression,...
2010-10-09
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SSRS - Join Function
Often when designing a Reporting Services with parameters you
may be required to display those parameter values on your report.This is...
2010-10-08
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SQL Server Memory Related Queries
What is using all of my memory in SQL Server? If you ever believe that you are seeing signs of...
2010-10-08
2,752 reads
New Hotness: sys.objects and sys.schemas
Last month we talked about the old and busted syscomments- and the new hotness that is sys.sql_modules – for pulling code out of...
2010-10-08
693 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of October 11, 2010
Monday
SQL Lunch - SSIS Design Patterns 1c: Variables, Events, and Automated Custom Logging Patterns - Andy Leonard
Tuesday
Idera - Accelerating Answers with Analysis Services...
2010-10-08
628 reads
Planning to Fail
Great title for a post, isn’t it? Seems foolish, lazy, or worse to plan for failure, right? Yet, in the...
2010-10-08
315 reads
Career Warfare - Book Review
I picked up Career Warfare on the recommendation of a friend that had seen the Modern Resume presentation. I grabbed...
2010-10-08
674 reads
SQL Lunch #32: SSIS Design Patterns, with Andy Leonard
Don't miss SQL Server MVP Andy Leonard on the SQL Lunch, Monday, October 11th.
#32-SSIS Design Patterns 1c: Variables, Events, and...
2010-10-08
798 reads
A little planning would have gone a long way
I was doing a database server migration for a client this week that involved a local database server with Access...
2010-10-07
902 reads
Today I Blog About Certifications (Instead of Studying)
I'm not in it for the money...exclusively...
I was talking to the older kids about homework yesterday, and I mentioned that...
2010-10-07
719 reads
Blogs
Accept the no and move on
By Brian Kelley
Here is a short emotional intelligence (EI) post for today, courtesy of Seth Godin....
Don’t Fight with AI
By Steve Jones
I was recently trying to handle a simple task with a few AI tools...
Narrow Task Decomposition in AI Pipeline Agents
A nightly load into sales_fact fails. Ask an orchestrating agent to break down the...
Forums
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
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Escaping Strings
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Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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