A couple weeks ago, I got some pretty great new. The book proposal that I had submitted to Apress was accepted. Over the next few months, I’ll be working on a book with a focus on indexing. As part of this, I want to find out your indexing strategies? It’s not that I don’t have … Continue reading What Are Your Indexing Strategies?
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Twin City Code Camp 10 Is Coming
Twin Cities Code Camp will be hitting the University of Minnesota Campus again next month. This is a biannual event in the Twin Cities where developers can get together and show their code. An opportunity to see what other people are doing and to exchange ideas. The event is on Saturday and Sunday on the … Continue reading Twin City Code Camp 10 Is Coming
SSWUG DBTechCon Coming Up
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
XQuery for the Non-Expert – Aggregates
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
TechFuse 2011 – This Month
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
FileSystemHelper Update and Release
About a year ago, I started playing around with CLR and my desire to disable xp_cmdshell for my clients. As a result, I had created the CodePlex project FileSystemHelper. I blogged about it back then and had meant to get back to it with a number of updates but that never really happened. Along the … Continue reading FileSystemHelper Update and Release
SSWUG Free SSIS Expo – Today!
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!
Iowa PASS Presentation Materials
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
SQL Server MVP Daily Paper
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
This Month… SSWUG Free SSIS Expo
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
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