Category: Random helpfulness

T-SQL Formatting Workaround (Word Macro)

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date June 20, 2011
Categories In Random helpfulness, sql server, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tips, TSQL
1 Comment on T-SQL Formatting Workaround (Word Macro)

Hi all! I’m on vacation this week, but I’ve cleverly scheduled this blog post so you won’t miss me too terribly much. Enjoy! I love a well-formatted SELECT statement. To that end, I often use Redgate’s SQL Prompt (with handy-dandy auto-formatting feature, just CTRL-K-Y!) to keep my code in line. But sometimes a job won’t […]

How to Speak to a Tech

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date June 14, 2011
Categories In Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

Hi all! I’m on vacation this week, but I’ve cleverly scheduled this blog post so you won’t miss me too terribly much. Enjoy! I think it’s pretty clear by now that business folk and tech folk aren’t always speaking the same language. We practically have a Mars/Venus communication split going on, most days. So, how […]

Drop the Noise

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date April 28, 2011
Categories In Random helpfulness, sql server, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
5 Comments on Drop the Noise

I’m reading Tim Ferriss’ “The Four Hour Work Week” (FHWW) right now, and it’s got me thinking about (among other things) clearing a lot of the “noise” out of my day. I don’t need to work for 8 hours solid. None of us can do that, anyway…we need our breaks and distractions. The problem is […]