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Catching Up On SQLOrlando

Somehow two years have elapsed since my last update; hopefully it won’t be that long before the next one. My last post was about SQLSaturday Orlando 2023. Since then,...

2026-01-16 (first published: )

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Notes on SQLSaturday Orlando 2022

First, the numbers. We registered 240 people, had about 110 on site. That’s definitely better than last year and still quite a bit under what it was pre-Covid. I’ll...

2022-11-04 (first published: )

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SQLSaturday Orlando on October 8, 2022

This year we’re back at our usual location on the campus of Seminole State College for SQLSaturday #1030. You may remember that last year we couldn’t use the college...

2022-08-01 (first published: )

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Notes on the 2021 PASS Summit

I attended the three main days this year and wrote notes as I went. As I sat down to type them up I started by going back to look...

2021-11-19 (first published: )

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Notes on SQLSaturday Orlando 2021

We held an in-person SQLSaturday here in Orlando last weekend (Oct 30th). We didn’t organize one last year, there was just too much risk and too much uncertainty, so...

2021-11-17 (first published: )

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Identities and Sequences IV

When thinking about the identity property and sequence objects, which of these can be used with numeric and decimal data types?

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