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.
Enterprise SQL Job Activity Reporting
A SSIS/SSRS solution that provides SQL job activity for all your SQL Servers.
The Flaws of Choice
It's nice to be able to choose what you want, or what might fit you better. Too much choice, however, can be a bad thing, even in software where it seems we could have unlimited choices. Steve Jones tasks about the need to limit choice.
Databases in the Cloud: Elysian Fields or Briar Patch?
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MDX Utility Belt of Calculations Part 2
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The Flaws of Choice
It's nice to be able to choose what you want, or what might fit you better. Too much choice, however, can be a bad thing, even in software where it seems we could have unlimited choices. Steve Jones tasks about the need to limit choice.
The Flaws of Choice
It's nice to be able to choose what you want, or what might fit you better. Too much choice, however, can be a bad thing, even in software where it seems we could have unlimited choices. Steve Jones tasks about the need to limit choice.
The Flaws of Choice
It's nice to be able to choose what you want, or what might fit you better. Too much choice, however, can be a bad thing, even in software where it seems we could have unlimited choices. Steve Jones tasks about the need to limit choice.
All-in-one
The client tools for SQL Server have grown from small single purpose applications to larger tools that combine a number of functions. Do you like that? Is it a good idea? Steve Jones asks the question in today's Friday poll.
The Sixty-Second Guide to becoming a SQL Server DBA
So you want to be a DBA, but don't know where to start learning what you need to know? R. Barry Young brings you a sixty second guide for how to get moving.
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Displaying Money
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Question of the Day
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