Community Speakers/Leaders - Where's the ROI?
I participated in a lunch meeting recently with a number of people from MS that work on their community efforts,...
2008-06-16
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SQLAndy
Trigger Notes
One of the questions that came up during a panel discussion at SQLSaturday #4 was whether it was better to...
2008-06-15
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Notes on My Visit To The Space Coast Users Group
I visited the Space Coast group last night, hosted by Ken Tucker, and did about 90 minute of SQL Q&A...
2008-06-12
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SQLSaturday #6 in Cleveland - Registration Open
Long time acquaintance Allen White is hosting SQLSaturday #6 in Cleveland on August 9th. Registration and call for speakers is...
2008-06-12
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Presentations using a Panel Format
At the recent SQLSaturday #4 we had a session end up finishing much earlier than expected, so we gave the...
2008-06-11
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IndyTechFest Update
Just received this from my friend John Magnabosco about the SQL portion of the event:
Business Intelligence Track - TBD (Arie Jones,...
2008-06-10
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Provisioning Storage
It's a rite of passage in our business that we have to learn the RAID levels, and I still enjoy...
2008-06-09
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SQLSaturday #4 Wrap Up
Attendance on Saturday about 450 across the communities (SQL, .Net, DNN, etc). Not as big as we'd hoped, but still...
2008-06-08
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Change of Leaders at ONETUG - Adios Shawn!
Shawn Weisfeld has been the President of ONETUG (Orlando .Net Users Group) for the past three years and has just...
2008-06-08
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Heroes? Probably Not
One of the big themes this year for Microsoft (and I just saw it on the PASS Summit site) is...
2008-06-05
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Blogs
Excellent article on securing msdb
By Brian Kelley
Fabiano Amorim has written an excellent article at Simple Talk on securing msdb. Here's...
T-SQL Tuesday #201: Temp Tables
By Steve Jones
This month we have a new host, which I am grateful for. So many...
When Do You Reach For A #temp Table?
I needed to do some research because there is more to #temp tables than...
Forums
Return all intermediate members of a recursive CTE?
I wrote a recursive CTE to determine employee levels... but what if I wanted...
jdbc auth failing to sql from sap's cloud middleware CPI
hi , our business partner is asking s4 sap api's for receivable info and...
Searching for my own posts
I have a really stupid question... Is there an easy way to search for...
Question of the Day
Escaping Strings
The STRING_ESCAPE() function requires 2 parameters in SQL Server 2025. The first is a string of text and the second is the type of escape rules being used. What are the options for the second parameter?
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