Monthly Archives: January 2018

The GDPR Sky is Falling

Posted on January 18, 2018 by way0utwest

David Poole wrote a nice summary of the GDPR regulations that come into force this spring in Europe. He covers a number of the sections, trying to provide a simple explanation of the potential issues from the perspective of a data … Continue reading →

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SSMS Line Numbers

Posted on January 16, 2018 by way0utwest

I typically don’t turn on line numbers if SSMS, but while working with someone on a bit of code, they were referencing line numbers in a large script. By default SSMS shows you the line, column, and character at the … Continue reading →

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Finding the Titles in R

Posted on January 16, 2018 by way0utwest

PASS has released the videos to members from this past Summit. I say TJay Belt today ask about relating a video name to a session. I have the USB drive, so I looked on there. Here are the videos: Not … Continue reading →

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Customize Software or Process

Posted on January 16, 2018 by way0utwest

Many of us work with software and often wish that we something was designed differently. I’m sure many of us feel the same way about our database schemas, which is usually even harder to change. In any case, we often … Continue reading →

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