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Speaking at SQL Saturday RicXXXXmond, er Boston. Or Mother Nature’s Reverse Cleveland Steamer.

Looks like Mother Nature is into giving certain IT professionals the old Reverse-Cleveland Steamer.  Yep, she dropped a big ol’ pile o’ cold poo on this SQL Server Presenter’s (and other’s) chests yesterday, causing the folks behind SQL Saturday #30 in Richmond to postpone until April 10, 2010.  This unfortunately coincides with Spring Break here(…)

CROSS APPLY

On Twitter this morning I saw a plea for an explanation on what CROSS APPLY is in Transact-SQL.  I answered the question via email and then realized that it may make for a post here on The SQL Agent Man… When used, CROSS APPLY will execute the function listed in the CROSS APPLY sub-clause of the(…)

West Michigan SQL Server Users Group Meeting 1/26/2010

Tonight is the first meeting of our reboot of the WMSSUG.  The information is listed below.  Hope you can attend! We will have an audio line on reserve if we see that the computer-based audio is dragging down performance on the presentation.  I’d like to thank Blue Granite for offering to host the event and(…)