Category: Fluffy Stuff

Fun with PowerShell: I made a game

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 19, 2018
Categories In Beginner, Fluffy Stuff, Powershell, Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tech and Learning
1 Comment on Fun with PowerShell: I made a game

So we got to playing around with PowerShell last week – one son is making a game hack, and the other is making a game, both with PowerShell. So I decided to get in on the fun. I wasn’t feeling particularly creative, so I stole the idea of (ahem) that game where you plug in names […]

Be in the SQL Yearbook

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date September 6, 2018
Categories In Community, Fluffy Stuff, News, People and Opinions, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

I’ve been thinking about this for years, and I’m finally doing it. I’m making a SQL Yearbook, and I want you to be in it. Since first writing this, I have realized that a “yearbook” is primarily an American phenomenon. M-W defines yearbook as “school publication that is compiled usually by a graduating class and that serves as a record […]

T-SQL: How many bananas tall are you?

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date September 6, 2018
Categories In Beginner, Dev, Fluffy Stuff, Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tech and Learning
4 Comments on T-SQL: How many bananas tall are you?

So today, this happened: Now I suddenly want to know how many bananas tall I am… https://t.co/7geupBzXDj — MidnightDBAAAAAHHHHHH!! (@MidnightDBA) September 6, 2018 And I realized it would be really easy to find that out, via a calculator, or – more amusingly – with SQL: DECLARE @feet FLOAT = 5.0, @inches FLOAT = 5.0, @bananaIN […]