And thank you.  A week ago, I was done, and ready to be through with anything to do with user group leadership. Questions like this remind me of why I...

As of now, all SQL Server user groups are independent, and most of us were that way even when PASS was part of the equation.

do it!  Even if it’s just...

Thanks for your input, and for promoting great discussion.

Sigh.  Frankly I think I'm done with the snark, and the negativity from community members.

I'm done, period.  I think I'm through with...

Well, not always. 🙂

the other side of the mug was the standard logo.

So Atlanta had had themed events for a long time; we were SQL Saturday Eleventy-first for example. For SQLSat 285, we used the roadway theme from our most hated highway....

I can say that as one of the SQLSaturday organizers for SQLSATATL, we’ve discussed it and agreed that we’re not planning an event anytime soon.  Georgia is still having a...

On your old hardware, I suspect that SQL Server didn't calculate a parallel query plan (since there was only one CPU); on your new hardware, the plan is being constructed...

Dates are probably one of the most confusing things to people working with SQL Server, so please forgive me if this sounds rather basic. It's one of those topics...

Assuming that you want to go from a date to a char, you can do:

SELECT CONVERT(char(10), date_column, 111)

see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx for...