Over the last few years, I’ve blogged about and spoke at the SSWUG Virtual Conferences. It’s that time of the year again, and the next virtual conference is coming up in a few short weeks. The event will be on April 20-22 and you can attend from the comforts of your home or office. If … Continue reading SSWUG DBTechCon Coming Up
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. In the last post, I discussed using functions within XQuery with the Substring() function as part of the XQuery for the Non-Expert blog series. To continue on that theme, this post is going to take a look into … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – Aggregates
If you’re looking for a day of training in the Twin Cities, then check out Benchmark Learning’s 2011 TechFuse event. The event features eight tracks of sessions from infrastructure and developer topics to, of course, SQL Server topics. The event is on March 17, 2011 at Mystic Lake Casino – if you are interested in … Continue reading TechFuse 2011 – This Month
SSWUG Free Expo Event: Basic and Complex SSIS Features virtual conference is today! There’s a chance that you can probably still get registered and I’d recommend doing so. There will be four SSIS sessions that will cover a variety of topics, but you’ll get some of the following through the content: SSIS Sorting and Package … Continue reading SSWUG Free SSIS Expo – Today!
This past Wednesday I took a drive down to the Iowa SQL Server Users Group meeting. It was a bit of a drive but I got a chance to hang out with a fellow Digineerian on the way there and talk about solutions. I really enjoyed the meeting. There were probably 40 people at the … Continue reading Iowa PASS Presentation Materials
A while back, I started a twitter list of SQL Server MVPs. I wasn't really sure why, but I just thought it would be interesting. After a couple months of putting it together, Rob Farley (Blog | @Rob_Farley) challenged me to see if I could find more than 100 current SQL Server MVPs on twitter. … Continue reading SQL Server MVP Daily Paper
A couple months back I mentioned the SSWUG Free Expo Event: Basic and Complex SSIS Features. The time has crept by, more like flown by, and that expo is now this month on February, 18th. If you are interested in learning more about SSIS then now’s the time to get registered. SSWUG is offering a … Continue reading This Month… SSWUG Free SSIS Expo
Will you be in Edmonton today? How about near a computer connected to the inter-tubes? If so, you might be interested in joining the EDMPASS January user group meeting. Colin Stasiuk (Blog | @BenchmarkIT) invited me to join the meeting today. The details for the meeting are Start Time: Wednesday, Jan 26, 2011 6:00 PM … Continue reading Presenting on #SSIS to EDMPASS Today
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post. In a previous post, I discussed the exist() method as part of the XQuery for the Non-Expert blog series. When working with the exist() method you may not always want to hardcode in the attribute values that you … Continue reading XQuery for the Non-Expert – @Variable Use
Week five and it seems like time is going by faster than I had expected it would. As I mentioned in the first post, I've already failed this exam once and am not really up for failing again. This week our MCM study group has decided to read the following items and discuss them at … Continue reading MCM Live Blog – Week January 10
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