Invitation for T-SQL Tuesday #002: A Puzzling Situation
Welcome to the second installment of T-SQL Tuesday, the monthly SQL Server blog party! Last month's kickoff event was a great success , and I'm really excited for this month's theme. I hope that we see...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #002: Is it XML, or Not?!?
The query optimizer is a finicky thing , and sometimes it doesn't understand exactly what you're trying to do until you give it a bit more information. The situation I'm going to describe in this post...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #002: The Roundup
According to T-SQL Tuesday rules as ratified by me in the first and second T-SQL Tuesday posts, the T-SQL Tuesday host is supposed to post a roundup within two days of the end of the event. So a...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #004: IO, IO, It's Off to Disk We Go!
Hey bloggers! Wake up and get your favorite editor ready. T-SQL Tuesday is back again, this time with a great topic hosted by Mike at StraightPath Solutions . Stop reading this blog and go read his....
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #005: Reporting
This month's T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Aaron Nelson of SQLVariations . Aaron has picked a really fantastic topic: Reporting . Reporting is a lot more than just SSRS. Whether or not you realize it, you...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #006: LOB Data
Just a quick note for those of you who may not have seen Michael Coles's post (and a reminder for the rest of you): The topic of this month's T-SQL Tuesday is LOB data . Get your posts ready; next...
View ArticleBetter Late Than Never: T-SQL Tuesday #008 - Gettin' Schooled
Apologies for the late reminder; tomorrow is T-SQL Tuesday. This month's event is hosted by Robert Davis over at SQL Server Central and the theme is "Gettin' Schooled." How do you learn? Or how do you...
View ArticleA Year of Tuesdays: T-SQL Tuesday Meta-Roundup
Just over a year ago I kicked off T-SQL Tuesday , "a recurring, revolving blog party." The idea was simple: Each month a blog will host the party, and about a week before the second Tuesday of the...
View ArticleT-SQL Tuesday #21 - A Day Late and Totally Full of It
“This ugly hack is only temporary,” you think. Six months later, a coworker curses your name, sacrificing a chicken to any deity that will help expedite your getting struck down by lightning, a school...
View ArticleA Computer Scientist Meets T-SQL
There I was. A freshly printed bachelor's degree in Computer Science tucked under my arm, I walked into my First Real Job. I'd never touched the technologies I was going to work with--ASP 3.0 and SQL...
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