Category: NTSSUG

All Things Awesome and MidnightDBA-y – 12/9/2010

Here’s the rundown of what we were up to last week Friday night at 11pm CST we present another wildly appealing episode of DBAs at Midnight. Log on at 10:30pm 12/17/2010 for the preshow. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dbasatmidnight Techie Articles: No new articles on Petri.co.il this week, but you should read Sean’s How to Plan SQL Server Database Files Blog: […]

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 […]

SQL Saturday #56 BI Edition Wrap-up

On Saturday I (unexpectedly) presented at Dallas’ first Business Intelligence-focused SQL Saturday at the Microsoft campus in  Irving. I wasn’t on the planning committee for this one, but I had the inside scoop: This event was only NTSSUG’s second, and came just six months after our inaugural SQL Saturday. It was intended to be very low […]