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Well, I didn’t expect a full year to go by before making a new SQL blog post. My bad. I’m looking forward to heading to Seattle in a few days for another mind-blowing SQL PASS …
Well, I didn’t expect a full year to go by before making a new SQL blog post. My bad. I’m looking forward to heading to Seattle in a few days for another mind-blowing SQL PASS …
Have you received your copy of the Lapointe Family cookbook? The cookbook, with recipes contributed by family members, compiled by Eileen Scobie, edited and printed by me, was available for pickup at the 2010 family …
My previous cat, Tabitha, spent a lot of time alone as an only kitty. I didn’t want the same lonely life for my newest adoptee, Sasha. When I got Sasha from the Edmonton Humane Society …
With SQL PASS Summit 2009 now over, it’s time to return to the real world. Fortunately I booked a few extra days off; it’s time needed to recover from the cold I picked up in …
Only a few more days until my first PASS Summit! Time to print out the session materials and stress over what to pack, and realize that I never got around to replacing my suitcase after …
Are you going to the 2009 PASS Summit in Seattle in two weeks? If so, then you really should go to the SQLServerPedia Bingo page and print out three bingo cards to bring along! Just …
It seems that taking care of the database servers is a responsibility that has always fallen to me wherever I’ve worked. Though I’ve never formally held such a position, I consider myself to be a …
Too often developers and administrators alike find an easy solution to providing data access is to give users more permissions than are truly required. In the development environments I’ve worked in, developers always worked with …
I attended a lovely lunch demo of Foglight by Quest Software earlier this week. As I was leaving and handing in my evaluation, I received a branded USB flash drive, the current hot freebie item. …
We publish datasets and documents that are specific to certain geographic areas of Alberta. The public comes to our website and wants to find all information that pertains to a town, city or area. We currently use Oracle Spatial to calculate where our publications are geographically, but with the move off of Oracle, we need a new method.