Paying for Free
It seems like there is a widespread malaise in the country these days. Everyone’s clamoring to cut taxes -but no...
2011-09-26
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What is a Microsoft Regional Director?
First off, they don’t work for Microsoft. A Microsoft Regional Director (RD) is an unbiased third-party evangelist of Microsoft products and...
2011-09-26
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SSIS Lookup Cache Connection Manager with Excel
The lookup transform in SSIS 2008 gives you the ability to join data and eliminate non matching rows. One of...
2011-09-26
1,704 reads
Small Business Hardware
[NOTE] My blog post scheduling-fu is weak, so this post didn’t go out Friday as planned. My apologies.
This is the...
2011-09-26
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Book Review: Smarter, Faster, Cheaper
In my continuing quest to not get personal visits from Buck Woody (blog|twitter) I’m making sure that I make good...
2011-09-26
1,485 reads
Notes from SQLSaturday #85
I’m writing this on Sunday afternoon after the event, thinking about the event and what I want to share with...
2011-09-26
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SQL University SSIS : Named Pipes -- Fundamentals
There comes a time when you look at how something is being done and say, "Does it have to be...
2011-09-26
607 reads
PASS 2011 Countdown – 2 Weeks To Go
I’m not sure how we got to 2-weeks until this year’s PASS Summit. If you haven’t registered yet it’s really...
2011-09-26
533 reads
Database Properties Health Check
For some time now, I have been working on a new book called How to Perform a SQL Server Health...
2011-09-26
952 reads
SQL Server MVP Deep Dives 2 Released
Exciting news… The second edition of the SQL Server MVP Deep Dives book has been completed and is going to...
2011-09-26
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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...
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Negative and Positive Numbers
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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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