SQL Saturday 56 Dallas (BI Edition) - Recap
This past Saturday, our NTSSUG group hosted SQL Saturday 56, which was our second SQL Saturday of the year. This...
2010-10-26
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Tim Mitchell
PASS Summit, Birds of a Feather Lunch, and Ask the Experts
The PASS Summit is just around the corner, less than a month away. Although I’m not presenting a session at...
2010-10-19
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SQL Saturday 52 Recap
I spent this past weekend traveling to and attending SQL Saturday Colorado in the outskirts of Denver. This was the...
2010-09-30
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Broken or Just Bent? #passvotes
Though things have died down a bit since the initial backlash, the recent development in the PASS board election process...
2010-09-14
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SSIS: Conditional File Processing in a ForEach Loop
I’ve fielded a number of requests recently asking how to interrogate a file within SSIS and change the processing rules...
2010-08-23
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SQL Saturday 28 Baton Rouge - Recap
Last weekend I went to Baton Rouge (by way of New Orleans) to attend and speak at the second annual...
2010-08-21
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It’s the Process
Unless you’ve spent the last two days hiding under a rock, you’ve heard the uproar around this week’s development in...
2010-08-19
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Dallas-area NTSSUG Happenings
First, apologies to those of you outside the Dallas-Ft. Worth metro area… I’ve backed off from using my blog as...
2010-08-17
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SQL Saturday 28 Baton Rouge and Ask the Experts
The second annual SQL Saturday Baton Rouge event is coming up in less than two weeks! Have you registered?
I’m honored...
2010-08-02
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What Are You Afraid to Ask?
There are some questions that can’t necessarily be answered in a book or a training video. Those are often the...
2010-08-02
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Take Time to Gain Perspective
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