Tampa Code Camp - Again
This turned out to be a nice event, better venue than last year. Well organized is always appreciated even at...
2007-07-18
1,364 reads
Andy Warren
Buy a $10 Raffle Ticket to Help Katie
Not a happy story, but if you've got a child I suspect it will be easy to decide to buy...
2007-07-12
1,383 reads
The Perils of NewID for Randomizing Results
NewID() is commonly used in the order by to return the result set in random fashion. No idea whether its...
2007-07-09
874 reads
Wiki For Books Online
Browsing MSDN this morning and saw the note that they now have Wiki support. If done well it could be...
2007-07-09
590 reads
Cursors to Increase Performance?
I recently had the chance to look over a friends shoulder at a query that needed some tuning work. In...
2007-07-06
704 reads
70-444 Exam Prep Book
I just got my author copies of the Sybex book for exam 70-444 and have to say the book looks...
2007-07-05
728 reads
Debugging Stored Procedures in VS 2005
My friend and former co-worker Chris Rock just posted at article over at SQLTeam.com that has a pretty good walk...
2007-06-27
1,362 reads
Celko Cites Steve Jones
I'm at the bookstore today alternating some work with some professional development time and was reading some of Celko's SQL...
2007-06-20
1,410 reads
GO More than Once?
SSC had a fairly routine article up recently about The GO Command the Semi Colon Terminator which I read, and...
2007-06-18
1,361 reads
Mirrored Backups Posted on SSC
This was fun to run through, nice to see MS adding features even if in my view they didn't quite...
2007-06-12
1,322 reads
Blogs
Using Flyway Prepare for State-Based Deployments
By Steve Jones
One of the neat enhancements made to Flyway was the addition of state-based workflows...
How I Migrated to Azure PostgreSQL Flex from Single Server
I did a couple of posts previously on dumping/restoring Azure PostgreSQL databases and also...
Have a Plan for Your Personal Downtime
By Brian Kelley
Most of us know that spending a lot of time on social media and...
Forums
WHERE condition using ='value' returns different results that using IN('value')
Have an interesting scenario - user found a discrepancy with rows returned when running...
Complex Query (Multiple Tables & Joins) - Need to Restrict to Max Date
I am using the query listed below. USE GAGETRAK_26237 SELECT G.Gage_ID 'ID', G.Model_No 'Model',...
Unknown Token Received From SQL Server
I have an issue when a stored procedure is executed from the SQL Server...