Monthly Archives: June 2010

SQL Saturdays are Catching On

Andy Warren (blog| Twitter) sent me a link recently to a piece written by Kalen Delaney on the recent SQL Saturday in Redmond. She gives us the reasons why she wasn’t sure they would be successful, but is pleasantly surprised … Continue reading

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Selling

I saw Paul Kenny at the first Business of Software conference, and then had dinner with him, chatting about sales. I actually had our company bring him in for some training and he was back last year again at the … Continue reading

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The Spring Event

I hope you’ve seen the note from Andy Warren (Blog | Twitter) on a PASS Spring Event, and there’s another writeup from Kendal Van Dyke. The idea of growing PASS by offering another event, in addition to the Summit, that … Continue reading

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T-SQL – Finding Changes

Someone posted a note recently asking about how to detect the changes in a sequence. Say you have a table like this: DECLARE @t_temp table (ID INT IDENTITY(1,1), Value VARCHAR(20))insert into @t_temp select ‘Win32’ UNION ALL select ‘Win32’ union ALL … Continue reading

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