Archive for September, 2009

SQLSaturday 25 October 10, 2009 – Final Stretch!

Less than two weeks until SQLSaturday 25, and I have lots of stuff to wrap up; however, there’s been some exciting stuff happening in the last couple of weeks. Attendance is up! Attendance – Planning to Attend: 95  (as of today) New Sponsor! Interworks, Inc has really stepped up to the plate and become a [...]

September 30, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
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Building ranges using numbers

A while back, I posted a solution to a problem I was facing where I needed to generate a table of ranges.  While I haven’t experienced any sort of issues with the solution, a couple of things have recently occurred which has caused me to go back and take a look at the problem, and [...]

September 27, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
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FizzBuzz

Stumbled across Mike Hillwig’s post in response to a question posed by Brent Ozar.  Depending on how literally you want to use the word “print” (do you mean the actual command, or do you just want output?), I think I have a slightly more elegant solution than what Mike proposed. SELECT CASE WHEN n%3=0 AND [...]

September 27, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
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Coming to PASS Summit 2009: Twitter BINGO!

So, last year at PASS Summit, I had my first real experience with a heavily-twittered event.  What was interesting was that I met a lot of people in real-life that I had just recently begun following on Twitter; I had made the comment (in passing) to someone that we should have had BINGO cards to [...]

September 25, 2009 · stuart · 23 Comments
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Leave-A-Comment Day!

  I recently watched the movie Julie and Julia with my wife; even though I was the only male in the audience (seriously), I really enjoyed the film.  It was pretty funny, particularly if you remember who Julia Child was.  Back when I was a kid (before cable TV), we only had 4 channels, and [...]

September 17, 2009 · stuart · 6 Comments
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SQLSaturday #25 – big news!

Just a quick post to announce a couple of cool developments that are happening for SQLSaturday #25 in Gainesville, GA, Oct 10. We’ve got 75 attendees registered!  I was really worried about the low turnout, but I’m feeling a lot more comfortable with it now.  One of the struggles that we’re facing is that Gainesville, [...]

September 16, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
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Another tale of the unwilling DBA – tempdb and the LUN

As many of you know, I’m a database DEVELOPER; I’ve been a DBA in the past, but my real specialty lies in getting different database platforms to exchange information with SQL Server.  I haven’t done a lot of hands-on administration (backups, maintenance plans, etc) in a while, but that’s changed recently.  Our primary production DBA [...]

September 11, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
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SQLSaturday #25 Gainesville GA Oct 10, 2009

Just a quick post to note that a) I’m still alive and posting, and b) I’ve been super busy trying to get this little conference off the ground.  I say little, because it looks like the Gainesville event is going to be a lot more intimate than the Atlanta event in April.  That’s not necessarily [...]

September 9, 2009 · stuart · No Comments
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