I Gotta See the Code is a security question about viewing the code to a stored procedure. Two points if you get figure out all the correct answers! So far it’s working out to be a hard question, only 17% getting all of them.
Read more "I Gotta See the Code–Question of the Day"Fathers Day coincided with the family vacation this year and maybe more than some years I had the time to think a little on being a father. Thinking about the gleeful giggle of my oldest daughter when you she sees through my tricks and the devious and delightful cackle of my youngest daughter when she […]
Read more "Reflections On Fathers Day"I’m leaving early afternoon for the longish drive to South Florida for SQLSaturday tomorrow. The schedule looks impressive! I missed the last two years due to scheduling conflicts with my vacation, this year I made things easier and scheduled my vacation to coincide! I’m on vacation all of the following week and we’ll spend that […]
Read more "SQL Saturday South Florida And Then Vacation"It’s been a while since I’ve used SSIS for anything of substantial complexity, and a lot longer than that since I went through the SSIS class that Brian Knight taught back when we were in the training business together. Recently I had a chance to take on a small project with some twists and it’s […]
Read more "SSIS Lessons Learned, Or Not, And Mistakes Beginners Make"I read a lot and one of the topics I enjoy reading about is woodworking. Recently I’ve been on a de-clutter kick and part of that is a trimming down a big stack of wood working magazines. I sent some to a friend, and was thinking to drop the rest at the used book store […]
Read more "Giving Away Woodworking Magazines"Did the list of states in the title catch your eye? That’s the list of states where PASS is trying to get a SQLSaturday going. I think it’s a worthy goal to try to have at least one event in each state here in the US (and every country in the world too). Maybe you […]
Read more "SQLSaturday in Vermont, Idaho, South Dakota, Montana, Alaska, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Wyoming"Status and Name Please is my latest Question of the Day at SQLServerCentral. This is a fairly easy question, but it combines two topics – substring and the user USER_NAME() function. One point if you get it right! So far close to 50-50 results. Think you can get it right?
Read more "Status and Name Please-Question Of The Day"I wrote Space Hoarders for SQLServerCentral, a discussion of why we – the DBA’s of course – are always blamed for the amount of space we use. Is it really our fault? Take a look.
Read more "Editorial: Space Hoarders"Sunday I spent an hour going over various notes and thinking about what I’ve seen in the past couple PASS elections and sent NomCom Chair Bill Graziano a list of 30 items of interest to me as far as the election cycle for the NomCom and the Board of Directors. I may publish that list […]
Read more "Prepping For The NomCom"The results were posted Friday afternoon, I placed second in the voting with 214 votes from a total of 539 voters making me one of three elected to the NomCom. Thanks to all who voted for me, I’ll do my best to do a great job for you. We should have our first meeting in […]
Read more "Elected To The 2014 PASS Nominating Committee"
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