What is 268435456?
What is 268435456? is the Friday question of the day. It’s a trivia question, but maybe an interesting one for all that. Better than 50% getting it right, not bad for a Friday question!
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The Great Escape-Question of The Day
The Great Escape is the question today, one I think you will like because…it’s about LIKE! It’s a head scratcher. The comments on this one so far have been really good and that’s good, I need to look for more arcane topics (LIKE is common, the ESCAPE part is not). So far people are being […]
Read more "The Great Escape-Question of The Day"Speaking at the 2014 PASS Summit
Finally the email we’d all been waiting for arrived yesterday, the results of session selection for the 2014 PASS Summit. Good news for me, one session of mine was accepted, so I’ll be presenting “Turbocharge Your Career With A Learning Plan” this year. It’s a good topic and one I’m excited about. I’ve been presenting […]
Read more "Speaking at the 2014 PASS Summit"Finding Checked Out Files in TFS
There may be an easier way, but this was a quick way to find ALL the checked out files in TFS, something I needed so I could make sure no one from the data team had anything checked out prior to some consolidation/maintenance. The “Developer Command Prompt for VS2012” resolves to C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual […]
Read more "Finding Checked Out Files in TFS"No Files For You
No Files For You is another Question Of The Day. I ended up making this one just a little more ambiguous than I meant to, interesting to see the different takes on it in the comments. I’ll say again, reading that stuff, what a great way to learn about writing (question writing anyway).
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Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly is the editorial of the day today. Looking at it today, I wish I had done a better job on the title, because my intent (and execution) is to get attendees to see the other side of the coin on meeting requests. Take a look if you have a couple […]
Read more "SSC Editorial: Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly"Reading, Writing, and Riskmetic-Question of the Day
Reading, Writing, and Riskmetic is another Question of the Day, this one about how to allow developers to understand performance while giving not giving them more access than needed. Great conversation that followed it, in particular read the comment here by Gail Shaw.
Read more "Reading, Writing, and Riskmetic-Question of the Day"Poecilonym Madness-Question of the Day
Poecilonym Madness! is my latest question that tests your knowledge of creating/dropping tables, views, and synonyms. Here’s the fun part – there are six correct answers to this one, that should be enough to challenge you on a Friday!
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Next week will begin our weekly planning call, so ahead of that (and perhaps a bit later than I should have) I sent out my draft calendar and marketing plan. It was hard to let go, I really yearn for the detail of a full project plan, but that’s just too much to tackle this […]
Read more "Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 20"Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 19
Below is the chart Kendal Van Dyke maintains for us in Orlando showing year over year registration counts. Don’t I wish this was baked in to the admin tools! You can see the trend has been remarkably consistent over the years (and we see the same with PASS Summit registrations, except there you see spikes […]
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