Friday Followup For August 29, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-08-29
1,174 reads
4 Attitudes I Wish I Had Earlier as a DBA
I was tagged by Mike Walsh (blog | twitter) in his post 4 Attitudes I Wish I Had Earlier As a...
2014-09-05 (first published: 2014-08-28)
8,136 reads
I Didn’t Hyperventilate!
I gave what is officially my second presentation this week. I presented at the Triad SQL BI (Twitter | PASS) user...
2014-08-28
1,307 reads
I did my part – Helping others
Let’s raise some money, people.
TL;DR Donate to Doctors Without Borders, the Argenis Without Borders campaign.
What started out as a joke...
2014-09-02 (first published: 2014-08-28)
5,405 reads
Dear IT Guy, Why do you hesitate to attend my meetings?
I was attending Microsoft’s on-boarding training last week and one of the managers there mentioned that a lot of IT...
2014-08-28
881 reads
The Art of Performance Tuning
Performance tuning often gets called an art as people feel that a certain knack or innate talent comes into play....
2014-09-04 (first published: 2014-08-28)
8,793 reads
What I Wish I Had Known Sooner…as a DBA
Yesterday I took a minute and to review some posts by some Data Professionals and in doing so I came...
2014-08-28
1,123 reads
Four things I wish I’d known back then
In the blogging meme of the day, I was tagged by my friend Tim Costello to share four things I...
2014-09-05 (first published: 2014-08-28)
8,211 reads
My SQLBits Session Recordings
Last month, I had the pleasure of presenting two of my favorite sessions at the SQLBits conference in Telford, UK.
A few days...
2014-08-28
1,053 reads
SSIS GoogleAnalyticsSource 1.7
A couple of days ago, Tillmann has released a new version of his amazing SSIS data source for Google Analytics...
2014-08-27
1,259 reads
Blogs
Are Blogs Still Relevant? I Think They Still Are.
As for me, I'll keep writing whenever time permits. I don't expect every post...
Reading Blogs: T-SQL Tuesday #204
By Steve Jones
This is an interesting invitation this month. Jeff Ianucci is a new host, and...
Are Blogs Still Relevant? - T-SQL Tuesday #204
By alevyinroc
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each...
Forums
Pay for Performance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Pay for Performance, which is...
Slow - Linked server query
Hi I have this slow query that is pulling data from a linked server....
Too Many Choices
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Question of the Day
Too Many Choices
I have a table, dbo.MasterBrands, with this data:
BrandID OfficialName 1 Samsung 2 Apple 3 Microsoft 4 Adidas 5 Coca-ColaI run this query. What is returned for Coca-Cola?
SELECT CHOOSE(BrandID, 'Conglomerate', 'Tech and Design', 'Desktop', 'Apparel') FROM dbo.MasterBrands;See possible answers