I try to go whenever it is in town.  Sometimes it is hard to give up a beautiful Saturday in July because summers are short in the Northeast, but SQL...

I missed your presentation in Albany, but I enjoyed speaking with you at the PASS event.  We talked about the benefits of blogging as well as presenting.  You are very...

I have been looking forward to UTF-8 support.  Our ERP and website use UTF-8 data, and our replications to SQL Server sometimes contain weird data in place of a ™...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by  nguntert.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 3 months ago by  nguntert.

Steve --  Sometimes you can get rid of bad auto-fill data by scrolling down to the bad one and hitting the delete key.

I would take Where 1 = 0 any day over what I saw:

AND contactid is null

(several other conditions)

AND contactid is not null

(a couple more conditions)

Someone did that without a comment...

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by  nguntert.

Hi Steve. Could you add the link to the forum after your editorial again? You have a great audience with interesting comments.

Thanks

Yes, thank you, Steve! I always enjoy your editorial. The new newsletter looks great. I still miss the embedded pictures from version 1 of the newsletter, but...

I am in the early phases of building the data warehouse.  I put all my translation tables into the etl schema and kept the facts and dimensions in dbo.

Prospectors come and go, but the outfitter seemed to always make a living. Pretty much guaranteed reward, lower risk, no huge pay out.

A long time ago, I dressed up as Kermit the Protocol. That was the geekiest thing I ever dressed as. My coworker dressed as The Ghost of Version...

I need a manager to occasionally tell me that I did a good job. More importantly, I need a manager to tell an upper manager that I did a...

Kryptonite! That's great!

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This subject is very interesting to me, and it seems like it would be a lot of fun to work with.