SQL Saturday Baton Rouge 2014
Since I have been involved with and eventually head of the Baton Rouge SQL Saturday planning committee each year since...
2014-07-10
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SQL Tact
"What You Need To Know About Being a DBA and What You Need To Know That You Don’t Know Yet"
Last night was a big success for the first annual Baton Rouge User Groups Networking Night, an all-user-groups invited event...
2014-07-10
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Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday 2014: SQL Server Best Practices for SharePoint Databases
Thanks for joining us at the first annual Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday!
Here is my presentation for the 1:15 presentation in...
2014-06-21
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Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday
I'm thrilled to be joining many of my colleagues at Baton Rouge SharePoint Saturday this weekend at the Louisiana Technology...
2014-06-16
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Using a Filtered Index to Enforce Filtered Uniqueness
One of the advantages and uses of Filtered Indexes (introduced with SQL Server 2008) is to provide filtered uniqueness. Obviously...
2014-05-06 (first published: 2014-04-24)
2,155 reads
Real heavyweights: Float vs Decimal, the Thrilla in Precision
This is a followup to a previous post where I likened SQL Server float datatype to Muhammad Ali. Specifically, I...
2014-05-01 (first published: 2014-04-23)
2,950 reads
South Alabama Day of .NET Presentations Downloads
I have been running into longtime SQL Saturday friend Ryan Duclos at SQL Saturday events in Baton Rouge and Pensacola...
2014-03-29
1,187 reads
South Alabama Day of .NET 2014
About 200 miles east of Baton Rouge there lies a beachside town called Mobile, AL that will settle down long...
2014-03-27
733 reads
Data Architecture Virtual Group - Whiteboard Data Architecture Presentation
Thanks to all 130+ folks who joined, suffered my jokes and handwriting, and asked fantastic questions during my presentation to the...
2014-02-27
1,293 reads
Acadiana SQL Server User Group - Introduction to SQL Server Security Principals and Permissions
Great crowd last night and a great job by organizers Glenda Gable and Jill Joubert for the very first meeting...
2014-02-26
997 reads
Blogs
Scooby Dooing Episode 9: The Case of the Artificially Intelligent Villain
Welcome back, my fellow sleuths, to my mystery-inspired blog series! I’m having a ton...
The Book of Redgate: Don’t be an a**hole
By Steve Jones
This was one of the original values: The facing page has this text: No...
Beyond Pipelines: How Fabric Reinvents Data Movement for the Modern Enterprise
By Chris Yates
For decades, enterprises have thought about data like plumbers think about water: you build...
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Question of the Day
A Common Split
What happens when I run this code:
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(1000) = 'apple, pear, peach' SELECT * FROM STRING_SPLIT(@s, ', ')See possible answers