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Challenging the Tyranny of Third-Party Vendors: A DBA’s Manifesto

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Over the years, I have dealt with a lot of third-party applications (and their vendors) that use SQL Server as their back-end databases. It has often been an uneasy relationship, fraught with pain and tribulation. The overriding feeling I have gotten...

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2009-02-12

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Ways To Build Your Brand

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This is in the presentation I've given a few times, but I thought it made some sense to put these things out here as well. I see there are a few major ways for you to build your brand and raise your profile in the modern world that is highly interconnected...

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2009-02-11

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Who Do We Choose to Follow?

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Think about your career and the managers, and potentially leaders, that you’ve had in your life. Think about life in general and who do you admire, who have you modeled yourself after or who you wanted to follow in sports, in a hobby, in life, etc.

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2009-02-06

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All the Aggregates you crave with Grouping Sets in SQL Server 2008

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As reporting requirements increase, it seems that aggregate functionalities have thankfully risen to the occasion concurrently. To maintain its competitive edge as Staples Canada’s best vendor, BaldGorilla, where I’m currently consulting, has been able...

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2009-02-05

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Ruthless Focus - A Different Type of Time Management Philosophy

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If you could list all the reasons I work, the number one reason would be to support my family. My definition of support includes spending an appropriate amount of time with family, not just working to support it. I suspect most of you would agree with that as a goal.

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2009-02-04

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PASS Update #3

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It's been busy since my last update, lots of stuff to work on! I probably won't get it all in one post, but I'll try to hit the highlights. The main event over the past two weeks was my first board meeting in Seattle. I arrived Monday afternoon

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2009-02-02

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Scooby Dooing Episode 9: The Case of the Artificially Intelligent Villain

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Question of the Day

A Common Split

What happens when I run this code:

DECLARE @s VARCHAR(1000) = 'apple, pear, peach'
SELECT *
FROM STRING_SPLIT(@s, ', ')

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