SQLSaturday #273 In Tampa This Weekend
I’m looking forward to the trip to Tampa for SQLSaturday #273 this weekend. I’m driving down this afternoon to beat...
2014-02-21
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SQLAndy
Notes From The February 2014 oPASS Meeting
Live notes from the meeting.
Attendance is low tonight, about 10 people (though it was well advertised, I got quite a...
2014-02-21
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Sometimes Cheaper Makes Sense / Mastering the Basics Always Does
It’s good to remember that the ideas and challenges of mastering a craft – any craft – have been around a while....
2014-02-20
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PASS Goals Published
Hopefully you got the email today from PASS containing these:
Volunteer GoalsProgram GoalsSQLSaturday GoalsReading them I’m first struck that we often...
2014-02-19
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If You Plan to Publish A SQL Script–Some Suggestions
Nothing better than finding a script that does something you need done and often done better than what you’d put...
2014-02-19
718 reads
The Challenge of Customer Service
Friday night I took my wife out for Valentine’s Dinner. We had a reservation for 9 pm and I hoped...
2014-02-18
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Everything Is Awesome
If you don’t have kids you might not get the title of the post, it’s part of the theme song...
2014-02-17
621 reads
Learning About Reporting & Visualization
Today I watched DATAVIZ YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD NOT DO WITH SSRS by Jason Thomas. The intro felt long, but...
2014-02-14
747 reads
Melitta Coffee Brewer
I’ve been trying out the Melitta Coffee Brewer for a few weeks. Not much to it, it’s just a plastic...
2014-02-13
735 reads
Interest In SQL Server Seems To Be Declining?
Amusing myself for a minute at Google Trends. Anyone missing 2005?
2014-02-17 (first published: 2014-02-12)
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Blogs
Inspecting TSQL Abstract Syntax Trees
By Zikato
TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree....
Becoming a creator, my website experience
By DataOnWheels
Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss...
T-SQL Tuesday #192 Invitation: SQL Server 2025 Excitement
By Steve Jones
It’s that time of the month again, and once again, I’m late and I’m...
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Question of the Day
The New Database CheckDB
I run this code:
create database experiment
go
use Experiment
go
select DATABASEPROPERTYEX('Experiment', 'LastGoodCheckDbTime')
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