We have got some boxes and balls. Our job is to put balls into those boxes. But, wait a second! The balls should be filled into the boxes based on some rules and preferences configured by the user. Here are the rules.
The time has come again for the UK’s biggest conference for .NET developers and SQL Server professionals. Read the press release about this years DevWeek.
William Talada brings us a short article to help you check your ANSI NULL settings and gives you a few reasons why you might want to make them consistent.
The PASS DBA VC hosts this session today that will focus on helping to choose between using a virtualization, instance, or database consolidation option. We will highlight a few of the key areas to consider as well as some of the important differentiators to keep in mind. We will provide a decision tree to help guide administrators through the process of selecting a consolidation option.
Is the SAN administrator dying out as a job? Steve Jones comments on an article that suggests it might be.
What can we use in SQL instead of E. F. Codd's T theta operators for best-fit? Joe Celko returns with another puzzle that isn't new, in fact it already features “Swedish”, “Croatian” and “Colombian” solutions in chapter 17 of Joe's 'SQL for Smarties' book. These were all written before CTEs or the new WINDOW functions. Is there now a better solution? Was there one even then? We leave it to the readers to provide the answer!
Coming on Jan 30, to the Boston area, be sure to attend this SQL Saturday if you are nearby.
So many people are joining the IT industry all the time and Steve Jones talks about the attitudes that they bring with them.
Comparing data between tables seems like a simple thing to do, but it can eat up a lot of a SQL Server professional's time. Stephen Tirone shows how multiple assignment variables can be used to make this task a little easier.
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