More on Strengthfinders
This past week I attended a one hour facilitated group session that was a continuation of the Strengthfinders assessment. One...
2016-08-02
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SQLAndy
The ROI of SQLSaturday for PASS & Decreased Event Funding
Returning to the post about Making SQSaturday Sustainable (see also a follow post about addressing concerns) it mentioned two topics...
2016-08-05 (first published: 2016-07-30)
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The End of the BAC–Why?
In a post titled The Future of the BA Community PASS announced that there would be no Business Analytics conference...
2016-07-30
826 reads
600 Miles, Limits, Fears, and Possibilities for SQLSaturday
Last week PASS published some new guidance for SQLSaturday that sets a 600 mile rule (has since been updated, still...
2016-07-28
1,345 reads
SSC Editorial: Should I Stay or Go?
Really late linking to it, Should I Stay or Go is about being more assertive about making the decision to...
2016-07-18
359 reads
Karla Set the Standard
Last week Karla Landrum announced that she will be leaving her position as Community Evangelist later this year after five...
2016-07-22 (first published: 2016-07-17)
1,638 reads
GIT Learning Resources
I’ve spent most of my career using VSS and TFS, mainly because that’s what was being used. Better any source...
2016-07-15
437 reads
Retrieving the SQL Server License Key
Strangely enough its been a long time since I installed SQL in production. It’s almost always done by someone on...
2016-06-27
1,614 reads
PASS Nominating Committee Update
Today PASS released a bunch of stuff for the upcoming election including the attributes of an “ideal candidate”. We put...
2016-06-22
418 reads
Names From the Past
Can you guess what all of these people have in common?
Shawn WeisfeldJoe HealyBarry RalstonTrey JohnsonJon WinerWes DumeyDonnie ReynoldsKevin JacobsJoseph MemmoBrian...
2016-06-22
484 reads
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
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...
How to Work with On-Premises AI Models to Generate T-SQL Code
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How to Work with On-Premises...
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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