Good Seeing
I just finished reading The Perfect Machine about the construction of the Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar (here is a pretty...
2018-05-08
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SQLAndy
Notes from SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2018
Notes:
Great attendance, easily 400+Lunch was smooth this year due to changing to boxed lunchesRooms were in 2 different buildings. Sometimes...
2018-05-07
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Benefits for Veterans
Wanted to share a few things I came across recently with regards to benefits for veterans:
You can get a printed...
2018-04-25
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Custard Indexes
Not sure how or why this popped into my head (and too late for April Fools!), but it amuses me...
2018-04-13
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Farewell, Robert Davis
Robert Davis (@SQLSoldier) died on Monday. A great technical guy, he did a lot of writing and presenting and answering...
2018-04-13 (first published: 2018-04-04)
3,121 reads
Jacksonville, South Florida, and Houston
Just crossed off my quarterly goal of planning SQLSaturday attendance for the next quarter (I’m writing this on March 31st!)....
2018-04-02
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Thursday Night at the PASS Summit
It’s early days for thinking about the Summit, but as I wrote the post for yesterday about not submitting I...
2018-03-30
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No Summit Submission This Year
I had three ideas I considered submitting this year:
Devops for the DBASQL ChecklistsLearning Plans v2I’ve presented the first topic a...
2018-03-29
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SQLSaturday Orlando 2018 – Planned for October 6
Just a quick note that we’ve reserved the date for our 12th SQLSaturday here in Orlando. It will be held...
2018-03-28
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Parsing the PASS Blog Posts about FY 19 and SQLSaturday
In February PASS President Grant Fritchey posted PASS Priorities FY 19 followed by An Open Letter to SQLSaturday Organizers, and then held...
2018-03-30 (first published: 2018-03-27)
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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