December Event Reminder
We are now only two days away from the biggest event of the week!!
More accurately though, it is the BIGGEST...
2011-12-06
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T-SQL Tuesday #025 – Tips and Tricks
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Allen White (blog | @SQLRunr ). The topic: Share your T-SQL tips and tricks. ...
2011-12-06
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Excel for the DBA, Part 1–The Basics
This will be a series of handy hints for people that know SQL and are frustrated by Excel. I am...
2011-12-06
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SQL Saturday 99 – RBA Consulting Interview
Welcome to the third of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland)...
2011-12-06
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Meet the DBA in Space Judges
Judging any contest is difficult, as you want to be as fair as possible. So coming up with the final...
2011-12-06
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You Should Never Use Backup Log Truncate_Only Except...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulhagon/369576792/I want to start this blog out with a Warning Dear Reader. The technique that I am going to describe...
2011-12-06
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Quiet Wednesday
For me the Wednesday before Thanksgiving was a quiet day at work. It was one of those ‘everyone is leaving...
2011-12-06
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The Final 15 Revealed: DBA in Space
Today, the final 15 competitors were announced at the DBA in Space website. To get into the final 15, the...
2011-12-06
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Create Drillthrough Reports
Use Actions!
Your user wants a summary report, containing sales for calendar year, for example. When the user clicks on the...
2011-12-06
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SQL Connections Fall 2011 Speaker Evaluations
In keeping with the past, I’m going to go ahead and post my evals for the two sessions I did...
2011-12-06
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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
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Finding Gaps in Sequential Data Using SQL Server
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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?
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