On Session Evaluations
As PASS Summit approaches this week, I’m re-reviewing my evaluations from SQL Saturday Boston and I’d like to give feedback about feedback.
Why Feedback? Both speakers and event organizers depend...
2023-11-12
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FLX SQL
Summit 2023 Is Nearly Here!
All week, my phone has been reminding me (via photo memories) of the amazing experience I had at PASS Summit 2017. This can mean only one thing - PASS...
2023-11-10 (first published: 2023-11-03)
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SQL Saturday Boston 2023 Recap
First Things First Thank you to everyone who attended my session “Answering the Automator’s Call with Automation.” My slide deck and demo code are now available on my Github.....
2023-10-16 (first published: 2023-10-15)
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Boston 2023
I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Boston on October 14th, 2023. This year’s session is Answering the Auditor’s Call with Automation
As DBAs, we’re...
2023-10-02
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FIRST Robotics Competition 2023 - World Championships!
Last week I wrote about our FRC team, asking for support in in the form of a cheering section. Today, I’m asking for more assistance for these amazing students.
Things...
2023-03-23 (first published: 2023-03-21)
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FIRST Robotics Competition 2023
For the past few years, I have been a mentor for FIRST Lego League and now FIRST Robotics Competition at our school. When I was in high school, I...
2023-03-14
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Seeking Home Network Happiness
TL;DR: My home firewall/router is slow, please help me pick out a new one.
After replacing my firewall/router/WiFi access point one too many times, I’m ready to get off the...
2022-12-27
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T-SQL Tuesday #157: End of Year Activity
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community member each month, and this month Garry Bargsley (blog | twitter) wants to know what activities we...
2022-12-13
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Leaving (or minimizing) Twitter
Fairly short post here. Due to the recent events around Twitter (which I will not get into), I’m making an effort to reduce or completely cease my activity on...
2022-11-21
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PASS Data Community Summit 2022
As I write this, it’s the weekeend before PASS Data Community Summit 2022 and depending upon when I finish, it’ll post either shortly before SQL Saturday Oregon, or in...
2022-11-12
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Blogs
My 2024 in Data: Reading
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
My 2024 in Data: Speaking
By Steve Jones
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back...
Top 5 Advanced SQL Courses for 2025 (Must-Know)
Want to seriously boost your data skills? Mastering advanced SQL is the key, whether...
Forums
Need ADF pipeline suggestion to copy 1 million files
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Function Defaults
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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