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Powershell, Me and the MCM

If you haven’t heard yet, Microsoft has made some significant changes to the MCM program.  The changes make the certification more accessible to the masses. You can read more...

2010-12-16

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Tis the Season

This month has been quite the month for change in my family.  The changes that we are experiencing did not end with the birth of our baby girl two...

2010-12-15

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Wait Stats resources

Today I was out and about looking for past roundups on TSQLTuesday.  While doing that, I came across a post from Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter) about wait stats.  The...

2010-12-13

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SSIS Job Execution

While working on a process to refresh the QA environment (data purge, reload data and reapply changes made over time as parts of release cycles), I ran into self-imposed...

2010-12-13

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When the Internet Stumbles: Lessons from Cloudflare & Azure Front Door Outages

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Recently, the world was reminded of just how fragile the internet can be.  Two...

Prepping for Certification, Part 4 of 4

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In Parts 1-3, I covered how I prepare for a certification exam. In this...

Flyway Tips: Automation Assistance in Flyway Desktop

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I was chatting with the product managers at Flyway and one asked me whether...

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Question of the Day

Putting the Player with the Number

In SQL Server 2025, what does this return?

DECLARE @player varchar(20) = 'Bo Nix',
@num VARCHAR = '10'

SELECT @player || @num

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