Well Run Companies
One of the things I use to identify how well a company is managed is by looking at how (well)...
2008-07-13
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SQLAndy
SQLSaturday #5 & #6 Update
SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia is progressing nicely. Greg, Russ, and team have locked in a venue and with registration just...
2008-07-11
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Vacation Reading - Boyd & Mullane
I did quite a bit of reading during a recent week off including two biographies. One was Boyd: The Fighter...
2008-07-10
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Employee or 1099, Part 2
A couple weeks back I posted Employee or 1099 and now that my friend Wes Dumey has posted his last installment, I...
2008-07-09
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Ironkey Personal - Super Secure USB?
Ran across IronKey Personal in PC Magazine and thought some of you might be interested. It has built in encryption,...
2008-07-08
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Listening on a Non Standard Port
I had a note to myself to write up some notes about listening on a non standard port, but it...
2008-07-07
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One Year Blog Review
Just over a year ago I decided to start a blog and I put an item on my calendar to...
2008-07-06
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Celebrating July 4th
I try to limit the number of truly off topic posts I do, but today is a special day in...
2008-07-03
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INETA Champs Program
My friend Shawn Weiseld posted a note about the new INETA Champs Program. Looks interesting and is a nice step...
2008-07-02
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Growing New Speakers/How to Go National/PASS Needs a Policy
I commented in an earlier post about the challenges PASS has in trying to select a 100 or so speakers...
2008-07-01
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Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Running SQLCMD II
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Running SQLCMD II
I run this command to start SQLCMD:
sqlcmd -S localhost -E -c "proceed"At the prompt, I type this (the 1> and 2> are prompts):
1> select @@version 2> goWhat happens? See possible answers