PASS Update #44 (Budget)
I had a question recently about how budgets work at PASS, and I think that’s something worth sharing, so I’m...
2010-10-11
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Andy Warren
Planning to Fail
Great title for a post, isn’t it? Seems foolish, lazy, or worse to plan for failure, right? Yet, in the...
2010-10-08
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Literacy & Teaching
I found The Literacy Project at Google after seeing a local op-ed piece about literacy. I love to read, a...
2010-10-07
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My Favorite Attorney – Chris D’Amico
Not often I do plugs here, but then again, it’s rare that I just get first class service, so read...
2010-10-07
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A Surprising Result from Ident_Current
If you haven’t used it (and I rarely do myself), Ident_Current (‘tablename’) returns the last identity value generated across all...
2010-10-06
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Reminder – Deadline for SQLRally Pre-Con Abstracts is October 15th
See my previous post on the topic,or just go directly to the application.The application has full details, but MVP’s, Summit...
2010-10-05
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SSC Editorial – Great Service
I wrote the editorial about great service after noticing a couple small but interesting customer service experiences during two trips....
2010-10-05
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Four Year IT Degree Approved for Seminole State College
Back in 2007 when we started SQLSaturday we had the good luck to leverage an existing relationship between Seminole Community...
2010-10-04
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Notes from SQLSaturday #48
I drove up on Friday, just under 7 hours with a couple quick stops on the trip. Listened to Team...
2010-10-04
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SQLRally Event Flyer is Ready
The SQLRally marketing team put this flyer together last week. We’ll be trying to get Chapters and SQLSaturdays to link...
2010-10-04
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Blogs
Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory
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Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2024
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Question of the Day
The Hash Join II
Which of these inputs is the smaller input to a hash join?
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