Category: 24HOP

24HOP Needs Women!

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date December 7, 2010
Categories In 24HOP, 24HOP, News-ish, SQLPASS, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
2 Comments on 24HOP Needs Women!

“Next 24 Hours of PASS on March 15-16 2011, celebrating Women’s History Month with 24 female speakers!” Thus goes the announcement on the SQLPASS homepage. This means that we’d like you – yes, YOU madam! – to consider submitting an abstract to speak. Off the top of my head, I can think of maybe a dozen […]

All Things Awesome and MidnightDBA-y – 12/2/2010

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date December 2, 2010
Categories In 24HOP, 24HOP, News-ish, SQLPASS, SSC, WIT
4 Comments on All Things Awesome and MidnightDBA-y – 12/2/2010

I’ve got to figure out a good way to present a regular summary of what we do every week. Until I come up with a good idea, I’ll just post it here weekly. Tomorrow (Friday) night at 11pm CST we present another stunning episode of DBAs at Midnight, this time featuring a Surprise Guest of […]

MERGE Statement Corrected, or, How to Eat Crow in Public

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date November 3, 2010
Categories In 24HOP, 24HOP, Beginner, Intermediate, News-ish, NTSSUG, sql server, SQLPASS, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, TSQL
5 Comments on MERGE Statement Corrected, or, How to Eat Crow in Public

I have no excuse, none whatsoever. In my T-SQL Brush-Up presentation to the North Texas SQL Server User Group (NTSSUG) in September – and again in the T-SQL Brush-Up 24HOP session I gave that same day – I mentioned that you can only have one WHEN NOT MATCHED clause in a MERGE statement (as per SQL […]