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My Career Path
One of the things I've tried to do during the past few years of my career is keep up with the recruiters who work in Charlotte, NC. The way I figure it, I'll
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SQL 101 Training
Wednesday November 24th, from 5 - 7pm I'll be offering my SQL 101 course. I was thinking about adding a remote option for those of you who can't make it up to
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SQL PASS 2010
I've been keeping up with the PASS developments from Twitter (check out #sqlPASS), and from the many bloggers I follow regularly. I have to say this week has
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The Query Your Query Could Run Like
If you don't know about the Old Spice Guy, seriously...go hit youtube.com now. The past few weeks we've been preparing for a conversion of data from two systems
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Off Topic
Normally I'd share with you some of the questions I've been reviewing for the 70-433. Either that, or teach you something new about SQL. But I'm heading into
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Study Session Oct 10 – 16
To help me prepare for my upcoming 70-433, I'm opening up my evenings to study sessions. I'm thinking we can descend on a local coffee house and discuss
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My Weekend
I decided to take a long weekend this weekend. I haven’t taken any time off from work since the end of May. I took that a long weekend then to get married. I believe that was a great reason to take off, right? Well this weekend I had another great...
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Charlotte SQL Server User Group — 9/23
Join us as the Charlotte SQL Server Users group welcomes renowned Microsoft Business Intelligence expert, author and trainer, Stacia Misner as she presents "BI
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SQL Saturday #46 Raleigh, NC
I want to thank all the folks who put together SQL Saturday this past weekend. It's difficult to summarize how much I learned, and how that knowledge will
Certification
70-433:Dynamic Management Views
I just laid hands on a great little guide to the Dynamic Management Views in SQL Server 2008. It's a great introduction / quick reference guide sort of book.
sql202
Modifying Data in Partitioned Views
Yesterday I covered the basics of partitioned views. I also mentioned there were some gotchas when it comes to modifying the data in those partitioned views.
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Partitioned Views
Last week I covered partitioning. I explained how you could set up filegroups in your database, and then split data from a single table or index across those