Next oPASS Meeting is July 23, 2015 with David Crook
The next OPASS meeting is July 23, 2015, featuring David Crook from Microsoft doing a presentation on predicting home value...
2015-07-16
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SQLAndy
The End of SQLRally
PASS announced yesterday the end of the SQLRally brand. It was disappointing news for an idea that started with such...
2015-07-14
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Worth Reading: Microsoft IT migrates mailboxes to Office 365 Exchange Online
Just read Microsoft IT migrates mailboxes to Office 365 Exchange Online, a good overview of their migration from Exchange. Lots of...
2015-07-14
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Be a PASS NomCom Candidate!
Today is the last day to submit your name as a candidate for the NomCom. If you’re a PASS member...
2015-07-14
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Thoughts on the PASS BAC
I recently read PASS and Business Analytics: A Winning Combination on the PASS blog and it reminded me that I’ve been...
2015-07-08
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Moving SQLAndy to Project Nami
I’ve been hosting this blog on Azure for a while, running WordPress on top of MySQL. Works fine, gives me...
2015-07-02
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Reporting Services Subscriptions in “Pending” Status
Ran into this issue today. A subscription that had been working failed. Looking at it in the RS portal it...
2015-07-01
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SSC Editorial: Exit Lines & Writing Editorials
I’m trying to evolve a little in the topics I pick and how I write them to push the boundaries...
2015-06-29
856 reads
Changes to the 2015 PASS Board Elections
PASS just posted Changes to the 2015 PASS Board Elections based on feedback from the 2014 NomCom. I was part of that...
2015-06-25
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SSC Editorial: Culture Clashes and Arrogance
I’m a little late posting this, Culture Clashes and Arrogance was featured on June 17, 2015. One of my favorites...
2015-06-25
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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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