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
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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
1,335 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
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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)
1,628 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
428 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
1,189 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
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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...
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