Archive for January, 2011

Something new for 2011: XML & XSD, part 2

I’m continuing my study of XML and XSD’s for January, and I realize that I ended my last post a bit abruptly.  I explained that I can cast an XML datatype to a SQL Server datatype, without giving a lot of background on WHY that’s important.   Understanding Types. Without going into too much detail about [...]

January 31, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Something New, SQLServerPedia Syndication, XML

#TSQL2sDay: Resolutions

For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, Jen McCown asks: So tell us: what techie resolutions have you been pondering, and why?  Are you heading for a certification? An award? Are you looking to pick up CLR because that guy at the Summit said it’s “bitchin’”? Go crazy… I’ve already covered a lot of my techie resolutions [...]

January 11, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web, TSQL2sDay

Something new for 2011: XML and XSD

As part of my New Year’s resolution for 2011, I vowed to do a deep-dive on something technical every month; for January, I’m focusing on XML.  I’ve been using XML and XQuery in SQL Server for a while now (even presenting on it), but I still don’t consider myself an expert in the area.  For [...]

January 10, 2011 · stuart · 4 Comments
Posted in: Something New, SQLServerPedia Syndication, XML

I need ideas: building a cheap-but-powerful dev machine…

As part of my New Year’s resolutions, I’ve vowed to tackle a new technical challenge per month; however, to do so, I’d really like to beef up my home development environment, and was hoping to get some suggestions from some people on what to do.  A little background information would probably help, so let me [...]

January 6, 2011 · stuart · 8 Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication

the ubiquitous resolution post…

Obviously, with the start of the New Year, there will be a flood of posts on the blogosphere regarding resolutions to change bad behaviors and adopt new good ones; why should I be any different?  There’s lots of things I want to change about myself, and I figure I should put them out there and [...]

January 5, 2011 · stuart · 4 Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Development, Health, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web

Is this thing on?

Expect a deeper post in a couple of days (I hope), but I’m trying to see if my blog is finally pinging again.

January 4, 2011 · stuart · No Comments
Posted in: Blogging is FUN!