PASS Update #40 (Elections)
Last week I made it through the first screening of candidates for this years Board of Directors election. Seven of...
2010-08-02
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Andy Warren
Schedule Announced for SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando
Our schedule for this year has 47 one hour sessions plus another 6 “mini” fifteen minute presentations, plus a separate...
2010-07-30
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SSC Editorial: Becoming Highly Productive
This editorial is about the idea of being highly productive more than how to actually accomplish it. Most of us...
2010-07-30
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Help Build the SQLRally Speaker/Topic Selection Process – Part 1
Last week we announced PASS SQLRally, the new event that we’ll be holding in May 2011 in Orlando (aka the...
2010-07-29
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Schedule Published for SQLSaturday #51 in Nashville
Just released, http://www.sqlsaturday.com/51/schedule.aspx?sat=51. Five tracks, lots of good speakers, but I see a few new names too. Looks like a...
2010-07-29
1,367 reads
SQLSaturday #40 is Almost Here – July 31, 2010
I’ll be leaving Friday morning with my family to go to Miramar, Fla, for the 2nd annual SQLSaturday there. I’m...
2010-07-29
521 reads
PASS 2010 Summit on LinkedIn Event Calendar – Have You RSVP’d?
Happened to notice in my weekly LinkedIn update today that Todd McDermid had signed up for the 2010 Summit event...
2010-07-28
783 reads
PASS Update #38 (SQLSaturday Wiki)
For the past couple years we’ve had a few different documents that covered how to run a SQLSaturday, but as...
2010-07-28
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Pillbox Application
Ran across Pillbox in Government Computing News (GCN), a web app that lets you identify what a pill is based...
2010-07-27
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The Vacation Backlash
Maybe I need a better name for it, but I’m describing the pain that happens when you’re getting ready for...
2010-07-26
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Blogs
Finding fields used in a Power BI report in PBIR format with Semantic Link Labs
Have you ever wondered where a certain field is used in a report? Or...
Adding Test data to msdb.sysjobhistory
By Steve Jones
One of our internal people was looking to test some process in (I assume)...
Microsoft Ignite Announcements Nov 2024
By James Serra
Announced at Microsoft Ignite last week were some new product features related to the...
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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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