Call for Speakers for the SQL Track at the Tallahassee Code Camp
The annual Code Camp is coming up on October 1st in Tallahassee and our local SQL group is trying to...
2011-08-10
796 reads
SQLAndy
See the New Logo and Graphics for SQLSaturday
Officially launched today, it’s been a project that took a while to bubble to the top, but we’ve done an...
2011-08-10
666 reads
PASS Update #61
Just a few quick updates.
First, on the SQLSaturday site we’ll be shortly rolling out an updated logo and layout for...
2011-08-09
625 reads
Money, Transparency, and Community Events
I’m going to ramble today. This is a complex topic and I think you’ll see by the end that I...
2011-08-08
908 reads
Celebrating Mistakes-Part 2
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. It’s easy to say we want to take risks, much harder to set...
2011-08-05
1,004 reads
Celebrating Mistakes-Part 1
Most of us learn more from mistakes than successes. We talk about taking risks, but what is the average response...
2011-08-04
671 reads
Detecting Fake Reviews
I saw this write up about Cornell coming up with a way to detect fake online reviews with about 90%...
2011-08-03
856 reads
Fitting In-The Editorial
This editorial I wrote ran on SQLServerCentral a couple weeks back and generated a lot of comments, and more than...
2011-08-02
300 reads
Notes from SQLSaturday #81
I started by journey to Birmingham by leaving work at 1130 and getting to the airport in time to have...
2011-08-01
301 reads
Big Numbers
What had me reflecting on numbers was an article in the Financial Times (Conduit of Contention if you can find...
2011-07-29
1,497 reads
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers