The person that most inspired me has passed away. I think of her a couple of time a year, though, and am still inspired.

I once inpsired a person to make...

Andy Warren (11/15/2013)

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Tom, I agree that jobs finance the rest of life. Given how much time we spend at work isn't it worth trying to optimize the work/environment some? What...

I've never thought about having a dream job. I've always looked at jobs as means to other dreams in my life. I earn money in my job so that I...

I would not be able to learn anything in 2 hours a week. I would forget what I learned the prior week if I didn't use it. I have to...

Read the info on this page about OPENROWSET:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190312.aspx

A little over half way down it describes how it handles data exceeding 8,000 bytes using an XML format file.

Tom

Revenant (10/25/2013)

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Luis Cazares (10/25/2013)

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I'm losing faith in humanity here as I've been interviewing some candidates for BI developers at my job. The last one claiming to have 8 years of...

Celebrities tend to give their children odd names. Kanye West named his new baby North. Dweezil Zappa and Moon Unit Zappa (son and daughter of Frank Zappa) are strange names.

Toreador (10/24/2013)

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For me, a better answer is to subtract one from the first day of the next month, as this method will allow the same code to be run on...

I think either asking a coworker or looking at a physical paper calendar are both excellent! 😉

I learn best just by trying things out. I do worst in a formal classroom setting. If I need to get started with the basics, I take a course, but,...

george sibbald (10/16/2013)

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I avoid it as if I do I get asked to fix their PCs, and I know nothing about them. Trying to explain to the uninitiated that a...

I wouldn't say we are thinking cloud first, but, the cloud is now in the mix when discussing options.

Since I'm not using 2012, yet, I didn't know about SEQUENCE. So, I looked it up and found a nice Technet article by Denny Cherry.

He not only explains what it...

calvo (10/15/2013)

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Here's a little advice I learned back in elementary school. "Just say no!" 🙂

Watching the game the other night. Bases loaded in the bottom of the 8th. David Ortiz...

Yes. That SQL Spackle is excellent as is the ensuing dicussion. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.