Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Resolution checkup
As February draws to a close, I thought I’d do a quick check-up to see how well I was keeping up with my New Year’s resolution list. In sum: not great, but not too bad, either. I need to make some adjustments, but I think I can pull it back in. Here’s the rundown (copied [...]
February 28, 2011
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Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Development, Health, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web
What Should PASS be? #sqlpass
Andy Warren recently threw out a challenge for bloggers to “fix” things with the Professional Association for SQL Server in 3 years. There have been some great responses so far (and I’m sorry if I’ve missed yours): Andy Leonard Grant Fritchey Robert Matthew Cook Mike Walsh All of these posts have great ideas, and have [...]
February 23, 2011
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Posted in: PASS, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web
BTW… #SQLSat70
I got accepted Now, I just gotta write the presentations….
February 22, 2011
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Posted in: Conferences, Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication
A simple codebuilder for parsing in T-SQL
If you’ve ever tried to parse a wide character column in T-SQL, you know two things: It’s a pain to do, and It’s a pain to do. A lot of the data I deal with comes in syslog format, which can come in one of two formats: positional (the location of the data element is [...]
February 22, 2011
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I’m doing it wrong…
At some point in your career, you have to realize that you’re going about it in the wrong way. It may hit you like a ton of bricks, or it might be a subtle realization, but either way you realize that things aren’t working out for you like you expected. I’ve had a couple of [...]
February 21, 2011
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Posted in: Something New, SQLServerPedia Syndication, The Social Web
Just a quick note… #sqlsat70
I just submitted a couple of sessions to SQL Saturday #70; I feel like I’ve been way off my game in terms of service to the community lately, so hopefully this will provide me a bit of a kick-start. Even if I don’t get accepted (the list is growing longer each day), it’s at least [...]
February 10, 2011
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Posted in: Blogging is FUN!, Development, SQLServerPedia Syndication
