Book Review: How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends
I found How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends on the clearance rack at the local bookstore, but you...
2009-04-02
482 reads
SQLAndy
SQLSaturday #11 Tacoma - Cancelled
Just head from Greg Larsen yesterday that he just ran out of time to put things together. As I've mentioned...
2009-04-02
293 reads
LinkedIn - Part 2
Recently I posted LinkedIn (part 1) about my efforts to better understand and use it as a networking platform. It...
2009-04-01
513 reads
Congratulations to MVP Grant Fritchey
Announced today on his blog at http://scarydba.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/mvp/. Well earned in my opinion between his participation with PASS, SSC, and his...
2009-04-01
417 reads
bedpost - It's Business Time
Further off topic than usual, but I ran across this as I browsed Springwise after a friend suggested it might...
2009-04-01
588 reads
Buying A Plane
There's been a lot of bad press about 'corporate jets' in the news over the past year. Not that planes...
2009-03-31
1,469 reads
SQLSaturday #15 in Jacksonville
The call for speakers is still open and will close April 6th, there's still from for a few more sessions....
2009-03-31
1,338 reads
Notes on the 2009 MVP Summit
Note: I was working on this at the Summit and then it got lost in the draft folder, so unfashionably...
2009-03-30
1,471 reads
Notes on the 2009 Orlando Code Camp
This was an interesting year to watch the local Code Camp. Shawn Weisfeld organized it the previous two years, but...
2009-03-29
1,434 reads
Featured Blog - Brian Kelley
My friend Brian writes Databases, Infrastructure, and Security and like me, he writes about an eclectic mix that goes beyond...
2009-03-26
1,446 reads
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...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers