I particularly enjoyed the irony of "How to Raise Your Game by Doing Nothing" linking to a 404 page:-)

Jeff Moden (5/13/2012)

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I might go so far as to say that if youre trying to find items like the example you gave, then the data probably shouldn't be allowed...

Time for a spot of RegEx pattern matching:hehe:

Guys, the reason I wrote the article was not to say RegEx is king or you must use it. I've got away with not using it for a very...

Just as the advice is not to use CLR functions...

I think it is a case of the...

Training videos in e-books is a great idea!

I've always loved books and read voraciously. I never thought I'd take to a Kindle given the tactile pleasure of browsing, buying,...

I've got a number of e-books on my Kindle and for me text books don't work well on that.

If they are explicit Kindle books then you can at least navigate...

In the DW world the new column stores present a compelling case but if you are not in the DW world what problems does SQL2012 solve for you? Emphasis...

What I've found so far is that Big Data is a nice vague term so loved by IT vendors rather like "Cloud".

There is Big Data as in vast amount of...

I could be wrong but I thought that InnoDB was the engine closest to the model used by SQL Server and therefore THE engine that is transaction safe.

I didn't think...

It's worth mentioning that some queries require additional casting in order to work across the link otherwise you get hexadecimal gobbledegook.

SELECT

CAST(NAME AS VARCHAR(64)) AS TableName,

CAST(COALESCE(Engine,'') AS VARCHAR(64)) AS Engine,

COALESCE(ROWS,0)...

I find email to be a bigger distraction than anything else.

At SQL Bits Buck Woody (Microsoft) and Kevin Kline (Quest) mentioned that email and IM technology is banned between...

Mental note not to play Scrabble with you!

I've just told the wife shes...

I sat a Myers Briggs test with my department. As an Aspie I asked if it could spot personality defects, at which point my boss started to laugh.

We were...