Mid October Free Training from PASS Virtual Chapters
More free training this month from PASS B/I, PowerShell, and Oracle Virtual Chapters.
Plan for Capacity
It is important that you are monitoring your system to handle the capacity increases as it grows. Steve Jones notes that FourSquare recently had to deal with this.
Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 3
As we continue in this series, see how auditing tables are used to track all changes that are made to the main data tables.
Add Some Spark to Your OData: Creating and Consuming Data Services with Visual Studio and Excel 2010
The Open Data Protocol (OData) is an open REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web. Also known as Astoria, ADO.NET Data Services, now officially called WCF Data Services in the .NET Framework. There are also SDKs available for other platforms like JavaScript and PHP.
Powershell is Really Easy… If you know what you’re doing
Sigh… I just spent almost a full work day trying to come up with, what turned out to be a...
Living Moore's Law
eBay has quite a new data center in Utah, replacing all their hardware on a two year cycle. Steve Jones thinks that would be a challenge, and an exciting one at that.
Robyn Page's SQL Server String Manipulation Workbench
String searching and manipulation in SQL Server can be error-prone and tedious...unless you're armed with the techniques described in Robyn's string manipulation workbench, here newly revised with extra material from collaborator Phil Factor
Detective Stories - Changing the Case
How to change your "UPPER" or "lower" case strings to a mixed case
Software Assurance Cuts Back
Software Assurance from Microsoft is losing a benefit and Steve Jones comments.
TSQL Challenge 41 - Extract email addresses from text data
This challenge involves extracting email addresses from a table that contains text data downloaded from various websites.
Blogs
Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?
By Arun Sirpal
For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
The Book of Redgate: Do the Right Things
By Steve Jones
I do believe that Redgate has been very customer focused since it’s inception. I’ve...
Forums
SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component
Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
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Spring Connections and Learning at PASS On Tour
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Question of the Day
Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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