Archive for the ‘SQL Server’ Category

A Few Useful T-SQL Date Functions

Monday, July 13th, 2009

I was working on a project the other day and…

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Bust the Cache “With Recompile”.

Friday, May 15th, 2009

In SQL Server, an execution plan is a calculation of the most…

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SQL Server 2008 – Service Pack 1 Released

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1.  This…

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Common Table Expressions at PASS

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

On Tuesday, I gave a presentation on SQL Server Common Table Expressions at the monthly meeting of the Fort Wayne chapter of PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server). It was quite clearly a rousing success, well attended, and sure to be talked about long after Common Table Expressions become the subject of vintage technology jokes and bad career choices.

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SQL Server 2005 – Service Pack 3 Released

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3.  This…

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