Types Matter!
Louis Davidson (@DrSql) had an excellent series on his blog on the Pillars of Database Design and the one of...
2009-08-24
431 reads
Jack Corbett
- Interests: Sports, books, Bible
Active August –> Week 3 Recap
Well, I had a pretty good week this week. I made an effort and met all my goals:
Eat smaller portions...
2009-08-23
352 reads
SQL Quiz #5 – SANs the Star the Show Must Go On(Mirroring)?
Okay, Jorge Segarra (@SQLChicken) tagged me in Chris Shaw’s (@SQLShaw) latest SQL Quiz, SAN’s and Mirroring. I’m a little behind...
2009-08-21
330 reads
SQLSaturday #21 – Orlando Pre-event Seminars Announced.
Wow! Andy Warren has put together a week of low-cost seminars filling the entire week before SQLSaturday #21 – Orlando. What...
2009-08-17
457 reads
Active August – Week 2 Recap
Well, I had a pretty good week this week. I made an effort and met all my goals:
Eat smaller portions...
2009-08-15
370 reads
No Training Budget Still No Excuse
When I first started by career in IT and SQL Server about 10 years ago I lived in a small...
2009-08-12
452 reads
Office 2007 Pro Plus Installation Issues
Since I have an MSDN subscription I downloaded Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit this past week. I installed it on my...
2009-08-09
381 reads
Active August - Week 1 Recap
Well, I made it through the first week of Active August (Twitter) without killing myself. In my first Active August...
2009-08-08
329 reads
Free Training! 24 hours of PASS
PASS is sponsoring a 24 hours of PASS event on September 2nd. Consecutive live (Live Q&A also) 1 hour sessions...
2009-08-03
317 reads
Technical Presenters – Make your point
I caught this blog post, Who says technical presentations can't be engaging?, today thanks to Dana Coffey (@crazeegeekchick on Twitter). ...
2009-08-03
330 reads
Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Health and Workouts
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
My 2024 in Data: Reading
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
Book Review – Agile Data Warehouse Design
I recently read the book Agile Data Warehouse Design – Collaborative Dimensional Modeling, from...
Forums
Windows could not start the SQL server (SQLEXPRESS) service (macOS)
I have a common problem that I just cannot figure out after scrolling through...
Adventureworks data does not load
Hello, I am a new member here so forgive me if I am not...
Restore Procedure not working
I created a small procedure that reads the backup file and restores the DB...
Question of the Day
Function Defaults
I have created this function in SQL Server 2022:
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.AddInt (@one INT, @two INT = 1) RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
RETURN @one + @two
END
How can I call this and invoke the default value for @two? See possible answers