SQLSaturday #10 was held January 24, 2008 in Tampa at the Kforce Building. Attendance was about 175, down slightly from the year before. Overall the event turned out well; 36 sessions, everyone got fed, no major logistical challenges.
We are looking to grow our team and we are interested in finding out what a reasonable set of questions would be for Network Administrator candidates that also state that they can support SQL Server. Do you have any suggestions?
As Steve Jones heads off for holiday, he asks a Friday poll question that should distract you from work for a few minutes.
As Steve Jones heads off for holiday, he asks a Friday poll question that should distract you from work for a few minutes.
As Steve Jones heads off for holiday, he asks a Friday poll question that should distract you from work for a few minutes.
The topic of plagiarism rears its head at SQLServerCentral and Steve Jones has some comments and an apology.
Chapter 3 from Murach’s SQL Server 2008 for Developers shows you how to retrieve data from a database table. In the process, you’ll master the basic skills that you’ll use in coding almost any SELECT statement, no matter how complex. At that point, you’ll be ready to learn how to code joins, summary queries, subqueries, and action queries, and then move on to working with server-side features like cursors and stored procedures.
Steve Jones reminisces a bit and comments on reaching one million members in the community.
Steve Jones reminisces a bit and comments on reaching one million members in the community.
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I run this code to create a table:
When I check the length, I get these results:
A table name is limited to 128 characters. How does this work?