Will You Buy Refurbished? Part 2
Yesterday I shared the small adventure of buying a refurbished laptop. While I was at Compusa looking at laptops I...
2011-12-15
865 reads
PASS Board of Directors – Who I’m Voting For
I was inspired by fellow blogger and all around good guy Nic Cain (Twitter, blog) to write about the PASS BoD...
2011-12-15
673 reads
#meme15 – Why Do You Blog?
Jason Strate (blog|@StrateSQL) is starting a new blog meme: #meme15. The overall topic of #meme15 will be social networking, obviously...
2011-12-15
621 reads
SQL Saturday 99 – SSWUG Interview
Welcome to the fifth of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland)...
2011-12-15
811 reads
Why I blog #Meme15
I’d seen various #meme tweets on twitter but it wasn’t until I saw this blog by John Sansom (Blog|Twitter) that...
2011-12-15
480 reads
PowerPivot Data Connection Error
PowerPivot report returns the following error from Excel Services:
The data connection uses Windows Authentication and user credentials could not be...
2011-12-15
1,321 reads
Execute Permissions
Written by Ian Treasure
Gethyn posted on the use of execute permissions a while ago (db_executor at http://www.gethynellis.com/2010/04/dbexecutor-role.html). Briefly, this approach...
2011-12-15
1,396 reads
Why Did You Start Blogging?
That’s easy, because Brent Ozar (Blog|Twitter) challenged me to……
Finding time to keep up with awesome blog content can be tough....
2011-12-15
658 reads
FOR XML PATH using node tests in column aliases
I've used SQL to generate countless blobs of xml over the years and one feature that I have come to...
2011-12-20 (first published: 2011-12-15)
8,855 reads
Data Mining
Data mining techniques can be used in virtually all business applications, answering various types of businesses questions. In truth, given...
2011-12-14
2,361 reads
Blogs
Creating a Custom SQL Server Security Checklist Using the DoD STIG
The STIG is detailed, which is a good thing, but I found myself wanting...
Creating a Local Model Chatbot on Windows
By Steve Jones
After my session at VSLive last week, I had a few questions from the...
To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice...
Forums
Querying Multiple Tables for the Same Information
I have about 100 Tables that are all suffixed with _Modify. These tables record...
Make It Routine
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Make It Routine
Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Finding Gaps in Sequential Data...
Question of the Day
Negative and Positive Numbers
If I want to know whether a number of negative, positive, or zero, what is the easiest way to get this in T-SQL?
See possible answers