Should We Lead or Follow?
Microsoft used to lead the way and teach us about their products. But it seems that perhaps the tide is turning and they are looking for us to lead them. Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the topic.
Microsoft used to lead the way and teach us about their products. But it seems that perhaps the tide is turning and they are looking for us to lead them. Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the topic.
This article from MVP Jacob Sebastian looks at the modify method for changing an XML document.
You’re leaving your current employer for a new opportunity and want to make the move as smooth as possible. You don’t want to burn your bridges and want to make sure that everything you’ve left behind can be managed by the people you’ve left behind or the DBA who is replacing you. So, you’ve done your handover documentation and trained up the new guy. You definitely don’t want to be that DBA who is cursed the week after they leave when their network account is disabled and a bunch of stuff ‘breaks’.
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In this new article, Yakov Shlafman shows us how he wrote a quick ad hoc report of expenses so that he could leave on time one day.
There have been calls for governmental security regulations for IT. Is that a good thing? Steve Jones comments today.
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I need your input to derive the...
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Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming Master the increasingly complex feature set of the latest release of Microsoft SQL Server with the information in Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Programming. Review the new features of SQL Server that will be of interest to you as an experienced developer and move on to more detailed, practical […]
Your response in a crisis situation can be critical to how quickly you solve the issue. Steve Jones reminds you to stay calm in today's editorial.
By Steve Jones
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I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers