PASS FY2019 Budget Notes Updated
PASS has updated the notes supporting the FY 2019 budget to answer the questions I raised in my earlier post....
2018-09-10
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SQLAndy
Looking at the PASS FY 2019 Budget
I just spent a few more minutes looking at the FY 2019 budget. It is hard to assess whether it’s...
2018-09-14 (first published: 2018-09-04)
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Volunteer for the PASS NomCom
The call for applications for the Nominating Committee closes on Sep 10th. If you care about the future of PASS...
2018-09-04
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More on Two Posts About PASS
Yesterday I linked to two really interesting posts about PASS and I hope you read them. I’ll start with a...
2018-08-28
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Two Posts About PASS
I’m a little late getting to this, but I think both of these are worth reading:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-letter-pass-group-leaders-sql-saturday-steve-rezhener-mba/https://medium.com/@SteffLocke/sqlsaturdays-shouldnt-give-up-pass-money-a478a97ee0c7Suggest you post any thoughts...
2018-08-27
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The Failed One Laptop Per Child Project
I wrote about OLPC back in 2010 (and before that, somewhere back on a post I didnt port over here...
2018-07-30
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Zero Width Characters
Another bit of miscellany, this one shows how you can use zero width characters to tag/fingerprint data. Reminds me of...
2018-07-23
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Paper Model of Hubble Telescope
Not even close to being about SQL, I ran across the plans for a paper model of the Hubble Telescope while...
2018-08-03 (first published: 2018-07-20)
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Getting Schooled by Brent
Earlier this year Brent Ozar invited me to attend some of his online classes for free. Free is good! Training...
2018-07-27 (first published: 2018-07-19)
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SQL Solver
A few months back I ran across this article for checking semantic equivalencies of queries. That’s interesting, from the perspective...
2018-07-19
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Blogs
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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