Dec 5 2008
PASS 2008 Summit Followup Article for MSSQLTips
I’ve just finished an article outlining high points from the PASS 2008 Community Summit. The article is available at MSSQLTips.com.
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Dec 4 2008
What It Means to Be A SQL Server Professional
What does it mean to be a Professional? What is a Professional’s responsibility to the community? Continued knowledge and mentoring are integral.
Dec 4 2008
I am the Dumbest Guy in The Room
Last night was the Friends of Red Gate dinner at the PASS Summit. This was held at Ruth’s Chris Steak House and can be best-described in a simple two word phrase: Porntastic Meatfest. I was personally invited to the Red Gate function as a benefit to being a member of the Friends of Red Gate. Friends of Red Gate are provided full licenses to all Red Gate products. They are influential members of the SQL Server community: Chapter Leaders, Authors, Bloggers, PASS leadership, MVPs, or they are named Tim Ford and must live in mitten-shaped states that start with “M”.
Dec 4 2008
Volunteerism and PASS
Most of you out there in the SQL community are aware that this week in the annual U.S. PASS Summit This year brings us back to Seattle and so far weather has cooperated. However, weather has little bearing when we are at a technical summit such as PASS. PASS is not just a technical summit – it is a user community that happens to present a technical summit, both in the U.S. and in Europe. That is what differentiates us from the SQLConnections, TechEds, and DevTeaches of the world. It also means that PASS relies heavily on its reserve of volunteers …
Dec 1 2008
SQLServerPedia
The official launch of the SQLServerPedia wiki is about to take place. This will happen during the PASS Summit in Seattle the week of November 16th. However there is no better time than the present to spread the word on this new resource for Microsoft SQL Server information and problem-resolution.
Dec 1 2008
Problems With Installing SQL Server 2008 Management Studio Not Necessarily The Fault of SQL 2005 Express Tools
Problems with installing SQL Server 2008 Management Studio? Maybe it’s not SQL 2005 Express Tools as you’re being told by the installer.
Dec 1 2008
Using Dynamic SQL in Cursor Versus sp_MSforeachdb
sp_MSforeachdb yeilds unexpected results when you exclude databases compared to cursors.
Dec 1 2008
Table Space Calculation, Redux
I’ve been asked if there was a SQL 2000 version of the Table Space Calculation code I posted the other day. The answer is yes. It only required that I change the @Results table variable to a temp table, #Results. This will work on SQL 2000, 2005 and 2008. While I was at it, I modified the code to report back results in Mb (who cares for Kb anyhow?)
