What can you do with a SELECT statement without a FROM clause?
Some people have shower thoughts, I have 1am thoughts. In this case it was the only keyword required in a ... Continue reading
2022-11-07 (first published: 2022-10-25)
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Tales From The Field Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of 10-17-2022
Hello Dear Reader! I hope you had a fantastic weekend. This weekend we celebrated my parents 50th wedding anniversary, my oldest daughter flew into town for an early birthday,...
2022-11-02 (first published: 2022-10-24)
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Getting Help Online
I spend a lot of time in the forums on various web sites, trying to assist people with getting help online. It’s shocking how hard they make it. Let’s...
2022-11-02 (first published: 2022-10-24)
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Daily Coping 24 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to find joy in tackling something that you have put off. I on not a bad procrastinator, but I do put plenty of things off....
2022-10-24
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From Manual to DevOps at the Data Community Summit
This year the annual PASS Data Community Summit is hybrid, both in-person and virtual. It’s exciting to have this coming back and I look forward to seeing people in...
2022-11-04 (first published: 2022-10-21)
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Daily Coping 21 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to do something constructive to improve a difficult situation. My life is amazing, but there are certainly some difficult times. Sometimes at work, sometimes at...
2022-10-21
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Presenting at DeveloperWeek Global!
I'm excited to be presenting my talk on Building a complete API in Azure
2022-10-21 (first published: 2022-10-20)
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Daily Coping 20 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to avoid blaming yourself or others. Find a helpful way forward. I’ve been busy lately. My days are jammed up with a number of presentations...
2022-10-20
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Notes on SQLSaturday Orlando 2022
First, the numbers. We registered 240 people, had about 110 on site. That’s definitely better than last year and still quite a bit under what it was pre-Covid. I’ll...
2022-11-04 (first published: 2022-10-19)
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Daily Coping 19 Oct 2022
Today’s coping tip is to take time to reflect on what you have accomplished recently. What have I done recently? Lots of stuff, but a couple things come out...
2022-10-19
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Blogs
PostgreSQL Support in the Data API Builder
By Steve Jones
Next week I’m at VS Live in San Diego (register and join me) and...
Ten Years of PowerShell
Ten years ago today, I filmed a Pluralsight Play by Play on open source...
T-SQL Tuesday #202: 100 Hours
By Steve Jones
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday again and this is a great prompt to start...
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
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