Category: NTSSUG

SQL Saturday #56 – The 24 hour Challenge

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date October 22, 2010
Categories In 24HOP, 24HOP, News-ish, NTSSUG, SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday, SQLPASS, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
5 Comments on SQL Saturday #56 – The 24 hour Challenge

SQL Saturday #56, Dallas BI edition, is tomorrow. Last night before the NTSSUG meeting, we had an unusually high number of SQLSat speakers unexpectedly drop out. The other UG board members and event planners are already up to their eyeballs in sessions (Sean’s giving three tomorrow!), so I was asked to put something together. In about 24 […]

Breaking Into SQL Showbiz

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date September 20, 2010
Categories In 24HOP, NonSQL, NTSSUG, SQL Saturday, SQL Saturday, SQLPASS, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Twitter
9 Comments on Breaking Into SQL Showbiz

Matthew Velic (blog, Twitter) just asked this question on Twitter: And really that’s a question I’d ask anyone on the “speaker’s circuit” – where’s the easy place to break in? Wow, Matt…in the words of the great Ricky Ricardo, lemme splain something to joo.. A year ago today, I was just a few months into […]

SELECT: If ON preceeds JOIN, then how….

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date September 17, 2010
Categories In 24HOP, Beginner, Intermediate, NTSSUG, sql server, SQLPASS, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tips, TSQL
3 Comments on SELECT: If ON preceeds JOIN, then how….

I got some excellent questions from my 24HOP session yesterday, and when presenting the same session at NTSSUG last night. There were a few questions pointing to the same area: * How is the ON clause evaluated before the JOIN clause? * If ON is evaluated before the JOIN, how does it resolve table aliases […]