Database geeks are all around us. I met Gary Mallow on the email list of a cycling group run by a local church. After some conversation, I discovered that he is a director of a group of developers who build applications, sometimes using .NET and often using Oracle as a database. Like me, Gary is not entirely comfortable with his ability as a UI developer, and so finds database work a good fit.
2005-10-18
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The MARS guy. That's where Steve Jones and Andy Warren first met Christian Kleinerman, group program manager with the SQL Server engine team. Learn a little bit about Christian and his views on SQL Server.
2005-10-13
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Itzik Ben-Gan is a writer and mentor in the development community. He writes a monthly column for SQL Server Magazine and co-authored Advanced Transact-SQL for SQL Server 2000 . He is one of the founders of Solid Quality Learning, a global provider of education and solutions for the Microsoft database platform, and serves as its principal mentor.
2005-10-12
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Richard Hundhausen is the author of Building Web Applications with ADO.NET and XML Web Services and Programming ADO.NET, both from Wiley, as well as the upcoming Working with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System from Microsoft Press. He is also a trainer, teaching numerous courses and speaking at conferences such as VSLive and Tech Ed.
2005-09-23
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Continuing with the humanization of the amazing team hard at work on SQL Server, Steve Jones takes a few minutes with Donald Farmer, BI guru.
2005-09-23
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Continuing on an interview with Raj Gill, SQL Server 2005 Roadshow Presenter by Robert Pearl. Get inside the mind of the co-founder of Scalability Experts.
2005-09-15
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We have a few interviews of the SQL Server team and this time we talk with the lead for Notification Services. Get some insight into Shyam Pather and and this add on for the SQL Server 2005 platform.
2005-09-08
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An interesting interview with Raj Gill, SQL Server 2005 Roadshow Presenter by Robert Pearl. Get inside the mind of the co-founder of Scalability Experts.
2005-09-01
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Who builds SQL Server? It's an interesting collection of individuals and we're looking to bring you some profiles of the entire team. Brian Weckler, reporting services guru, is the subject of this interview.
2005-08-25
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Shawn Wildermuth is the “go-to guy” for information on ADO.NET. He is the author of Pragmatic ADO.NET: Data Access for the Internet World and numerous articles, is a Microsoft MVP, and works as an independent consultant in Atlanta.
Shawn’s web site, The ADO Guy, is a good resource for developers looking for answers to questions about ADO and ADO.NET. The site also lists interesting blogs, books and sites that are among Shawn’s favorites.
2005-08-11
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Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers