Elected To The 2014 PASS Nominating Committee
The results were posted Friday afternoon, I placed second in the voting with 214 votes from a total of 539...
2014-06-09
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SQLAndy
Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 17
Didn’t get as much done this week as I’d hoped, but a little luck balanced that out! I do at...
2014-06-07
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5300 PASS Voters for 2014 Election
I was catching up on reading the minutes of PASS Board meetings and found the following except in paragraph 2...
2014-06-06
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D-Day, Family, Vets, and Life
Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, a day worth remembering and celebrating to be sure. I like that we...
2014-06-06
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Miscellaneous Notes on the PASS NomCom and General Election
Interesting day yesterday. A spirited discussion on Twitter, a challenging post from candidate Mark Broadbent, and a couple good threads...
2014-06-04
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A Sherlockian Question Of the Day & Why I’m Writing Questions
If you haven’t noticed by now I’ve been writing quite a few questions of the day for SQLServerCentral. It started,...
2014-06-04
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Access Granted or Not? Question of the Day
Access Granted or Not? is my latest Question Of The Day and I think it represents a pretty good troubleshooting...
2014-06-03
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I Voted For the 2014 PASS NomCom
I was interested to see that the online voting system has changed this year to one powered by Simply Voting....
2014-06-03
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Recent Reading: The Food Network, And The White House!
I haven’t posted much on books lately, here are two that are different:
Inside the Food Network. Definitely some gossip, but...
2014-06-03
353 reads
I’m A Candidate For the PASS 2014 Nominating Committee
I submitted my application for the NomCom on May 21 and after the review process we’re now in “campaign week”....
2014-06-02
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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...
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