One of the things that I often do is create stored procedures. The syntax for doing so is simple, but...

2017-01-04

514 reads

The Side Project

by Tim Mitchell

Tim Mitchell

When I first started working as a technologist some 17 years ago, I was doing fairly low-level stuff: moving and...

2017-01-11 (first published: 2017-01-04)

1,365 reads

When was SQL Server installed?

by Dharmendra Keshari

SQL Geek

In this blog post. Let us learn about how to retrieve date and time when the SQL Server was installed. To retrieve...

2017-01-04

13,939 reads

My Interview published on Microsoft Technet Blog

by Prashanth Jayaram

PowerSQL By Prashanth Jayaram

Wish you a Happy New Year to all the readers and technical enthusiasts!!!
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/wikininjas/2017/01/02/interview-with-a-sql-server-expert-and-wiki-ninja-prashanth-jayaram/
My interview is published on the Microsoft Technet blog...

2017-01-03

454 reads

Epic Life Quests

by Bert Wagner

Bert Wagner

It is easy to get caught up in the daily details of life and not take the time to reflect on longer term goals and accomplishments.
Inspired by Brent Ozar...

2017-01-03

22 reads

Launching #TAPtips – Valuable Tips from Decades of Practice

by Marc Beacom

Marc Beacom

Launching #TAPtips Blog Posts While forming Datalere, Carlos and I wanted to continue with our contributions to the Denver, Colorado...

2017-01-03

205 reads

Be Careful of Your Create Stored Procedure Batch

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral Blogs

I was rehearsing a demo with someone recently and we had some stored procedure code that looked like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE...

2017-01-03

3,788 reads

Books of 2016

by Gail Shaw

SQL In The Wild

I set myself a reading goal of 75 books for last year, and managed 73. I’m not overly happy about that, there were months where I barely managed to...

2017-01-03

10 reads