What is Microsoft TAP and RDP?
Technology Adoption Program (TAP) and Rapid Deployment Program (RDP) are ways for Microsoft to get early feedback on new products or product...
2011-10-24
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Brad or Spot?
Today we have another guest post from Steve Jones.
I’m no expert on animals, but I have a little experience out...
2011-10-24
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SET ARITHABORT ON
When completing an installation I saw the following error – which stopped the installation .
The error occurred during the creation of...
2011-10-24
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I Can’t Go To Space
If I could win the DBA In Space contest, I’d be all over it like white on rice. But I...
2011-10-24
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SQL Server 2012 Developers Training Kit
Microsoft has recently released the SQL Server Developer Training kit for SQL Server 2012. The developers kit includes fantastic resources...
2011-10-24
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PASS Update #66 (All Good Things)
Last week I emailed the Board of Directors my resignation effective December 31st of this year, ending my current term...
2011-10-24
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ALTER SCHEMA
Use this select statement to create a list of ALTER SCHEMA statements for all stored procedures in a SQL Server...
2011-10-24
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SSIS 2012: Project Reference
One of the less advertised enhancements of SSIS in SQL Server 2012 is the Project Reference type available when using...
2011-10-24
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GiveCamp Tampa 2011
This past weekend I participated at GiveCamp Tampa 2011 (http://www.givecamptampabay.org/) as part as the Worldwide GiveCamp (http://www.givecamp.org) weekend sponsored by...
2011-10-24
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Deploying SSIS Packages with BIxPress
Same functionality but obvious differences
If you’ve worked with SSIS for any amount of time, you may quickly come to find...
2011-10-24
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Blogs
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...
A New Word: Dorgone
By Steve Jones
dorgone– adj. wondering if you could slip away from an event or group conversation...
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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