Archive for March, 2011
Something new for 2011: bunches of little stuff
OK, it’s the last day of March, and I’m phoning in this blog post. It’s not that I haven’t spent a lot of time learning something new this month, it’s that I’ve got a pile of stuff to get through before leaving on vacation next week, and I really just don’t have more than 15 [...]
March 31, 2011
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Posted in: Something New, SQLServerPedia Syndication
much delayed #sqlsat70 write-up
This write-up will be brief and to the point: SQL Saturday 70 rocked. K. Brian Kelley (Blog|Twitter) and his team put together a great event (again), and it was a lot of fun catching up with so many SQL people. Unfortunately, I had a rather severe sinus infection which kept me from really enjoying the [...]
March 28, 2011
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Posted in: Conferences, SQL Server, SQLServerPedia Syndication
#TSQL2sday: Emulating a FIRST aggregation
Jes Borland is hosting this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, and it’s all about aggregations. Here’s an old coding trick of mine to emulate a FIRST aggregation in T-SQL. Say we have a table that has three columns: ID, a uniqueidentifier Name, a varchar that represents something, and DateStored, a datetime that is set when the row [...]
March 8, 2011
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Posted in: SQLServerPedia Syndication, TSQL2sDay
My interview with #sqlpeople is up!
Totally missed this one a few days ago; my mini-blog with SQLPeople was just posted on March 2. Thanks to Andy Leonard for pulling this together; it’s been interesting reading about a lot of people I already knew, but didn’t know enough about.
March 7, 2011
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Posted in: SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web
