It's about Perception
What's the most important thing about your application? The code? The accuracy of its calculations? The layout of the reports? Steve Jones has another opinion.
It's About Perception
What's the most important thing about your application? The code? The accuracy of its calculations? The layout of the reports? Steve Jones has another opinion.
MDX Utility Belt of Calculations Part 3
This is part three in a series of blog posts that will help you build an arsenal of MDX calculations...
Query Active Directory Data from SQL Server using T-SQL
Learn how to use SQL Server Transact SQL with OPENROWSET and OPENQUERY commands to access and retrieve data from Active Directory.
Introduction to Common Table Expressions
Learn how to use common table expressions to simplify your code. Replace temp tables and correlated subqueries with this cool T-SQL feature.
Best Practice for renaming a SQL Server Database
One of the Junior SQL Server Database Administrator in my company approached me yesterday with a dilemma. He was assigned a task to rename few of the databases in Beta and Production environments; the reason being the database name was based on some other project that is no longer relevant to the data which is presently stored within the database. At first I started to tell him, but figured it would be smarter to document the same and share the information.
Electronic Health Records – What’s the Big Deal? (Part 3)
In the previous post in this series, I discussed the obstacles to implementing electronic health data systems. Because of these...
Fun With SQL Azure
Pinal Dave had a helpful post a few days ago about how to setup and configure SQL Azure. You will...
Life Logging
Would you like the idea of capturing everything you do? Audio, video, text, code, a log of your life. A new book from Microsoft Research talks about this and Steve Jones things it could be an interesting capability for your career.
Life Logging
Would you like the idea of capturing everything you do? Audio, video, text, code, a log of your life. A new book from Microsoft Research talks about this and Steve Jones things it could be an interesting capability for your career.
Blogs
5 Starter Projects for Your AI and Data Engineering Portfolio
Reading tutorials is fine. Shipping something is better. If you are trying to break...
The Book of Redgate: Taking Breaks
By Steve Jones
We work hard at Redgate, though with a good work-life balance. One interesting observation...
Database AI Agents: The Read-Only Rule
By Arun Sirpal
Fourth in a series on Ai and databases. What Read-Only Advisory Actually Means A...
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Displaying Money
I want to get the currency sign displayed with my amount stored in a money type. Does this work?
DECLARE @Amount MONEY; SET @Amount = '?1500'; SELECT CAST( @Amount AS VARCHAR(30)) AS EurosSee possible answers