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After Thursday’s sessions ended I was invited to a dinner thrown by Red Gate software. I’m in their “Friends of Red Gate” program, which basically means I show their tremendous software to customers or at user groups. It’s been an easy relationship
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Another fun filled day at PASS started with a session from Kalen Delaney. The room was packed and she was discussing query plans. I had heard a good bit of the content before but it was still interesting to finally see her present live.
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A quick post about today’s sessions so far…Ted Kummert’s keynote was interesting in how sparse his details were. Aaron has a good overview of his talking points – I won’t bother retyping. I guess I was expecting at least one big “woo hoo”
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I’m a couple thousand miles over Colorado as I’m typing this, headed to Seattle and the PASS conference. Should be a tremendous week of content and networking. It’s also a bonus to be so close to the Microsoft campus. I will finally
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I recently broke my own blog admonition about Windows 7 and virtual environments. In my defense, I came across a laptop drive in my home office that worked in my Dell D620. That’s a sign right? You’re just meant to install it… :) So
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As promised here are the code samples and slide deck from yesterday’s presentation. Thanks to everyone who came to hear me speak, you were a great audience. I would also like to give a virtual high five to all the folks involved in putting on SQLSaturday
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During the course of two days in the MSDN TSQL forums I must have seen 10 requests that were basically the same issue. Some string of values is passed from your application and you need to split them into the individual items. Here is a quick implementation
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Are you looking for a super early beta of Windows 7 for your virtual machine of choice (and dear Lord please tell me you would only do this on a virtual)? The Windows Vista blog is reporting that attendees of next month's PDC will be getting the
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Next month there will be a free one day SQL event in Greenville, SC. It is part of the national SQLSaturday events and looks to be a great time. There are tracks for BI and data management. I will be presenting a session on 'Dynamic Management Views'
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On Google's blog site they are announcing the release of their own browser, Google Chrome. The initial launch will be tomorrow, supporting Windows only. So what do you think about a new entrant into the browser space? Normally, I would say
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The new beta is available for download. Head on over to the IE blog for details and a download link.
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Aaron Bertrand has posted his wish list for the next version of SQL Server. As usual, I'm in solid agreement with Aaron's post. What's that you say? A version just shipped? I know, I know...but it's never too early to start asking for
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Hooray, it's finally here! Head on over to MSDN or TechNet and get your download on..
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A non SQL related post today. Last week I gave in to my curiosity and bought an iPhone. I was already with AT&T and a little intrigued by the ActiveSync integration. After peppering Anthony Handley (I owe him several beers) with
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I've answered this question twice today so I thought it made good sense to blog it. I am going to give three examples that will quickly get you to the text of a stored procedure or other object type. I am assuming you are looking to skip the [Database
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