I am of that similar belief...just take the exam. If I fail, then I know I need to study.

- Chris

I read an article recently that spoke about a similar topic...major of IS versus major of CS, with the author preferring CS.

- Chris

Some companies use their employees certifications to retain their status in the Microsoft Partnership program too. Employees might not even be aware of this! I was not when...

What about the pace of change in the certification world? What if you have earned a certification on say SQL 2005? When should you renew that, if at...

OK...thanks, Grant.

Hi, Grant. Given it has been a while since your last post on this topic, and with the introduction of new releases of E/F, any new opinion(s)?

Thanks...Chris

OK...thanks.

Thanks for the reply.

You can keep them in the same folder. Within your foreach loop, however, inspect the file extension and have two branches off of the inspection object and do the...

OK...so I double-checked the closet and it turns out my initial count was wrong. So, I have:

2 SQL Saturday shirts -- 1 polo; 1 t-shirt

1 Quest t-shirt

1 RedGate t-shirt

Hey!...

Man! I've got to step my T-shirt game up! 🙂 I only have 2 -- 1 SQL Saturday shirt and 1 RedGate shirt.

Also, specify that your parameter is of the type output (parameter direction).

Hope that this helps.

- Chris

I have really enjoyed this series. Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

- Chris

Nice article...thanks.

- Chris

I think that Service Broker is a great tool! At my last employer, we implemented it to do asychronous processing in the background. It is not very difficult...