What's Your Favorite Trek Episode?
Most of my posts here are reasonably serious, and really this one is too, but a but of humor mixed in....
2008-09-18
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SQLAndy
Tampa Code Camp is December 2, 2008
In recent years this event has been held in July, but this year they ran into problems when the planned...
2008-09-17
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Cross Functional Teams & Cross Training
Cross functional teams sounds a lot like a buzzword, and maybe it is to a degree - but still worth talking...
2008-09-16
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Relaunching JumpstartTV.com
We experimented with some video training back in 2004/2005 on SSC, but we just didn't have the time/energy to pursue...
2008-09-15
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Announcing SQLSaturday #10 - Tampa 2009
Pam Shaw & Wes Dumey are leading the charge for the 2nd annual Tampa SQLSaturday on January 24, 2009. They are...
2008-09-14
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SQL Code Review - Scalar Variables
One very common mistake I see when reviewing code is the case where the select statement is returning multiple rows,...
2008-09-14
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Vacations Part II
One of the big decisions around vacations is whether it should be a 'do something' vacation or a 'do nothing'...
2008-09-11
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Blog Review - Yours & Mine
It's pretty common to see a mild plea from blog authors asking for feedback, or ideas about which to write...
2008-09-10
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Upcoming Presentation at the PASS Summit 2008
PASS asked all speakers to update their blogs with news about the event (a good idea), so here's my post!
I'll...
2008-09-10
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Notes on the Jacksonville Code Camp 2009
I'm a couple weeks last posting this, but wanted to get my notes down anyway for future use. The goal of...
2008-09-09
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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
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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...
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