Category: People and Opinions

Announcing Inappropriate PASS Sessions 2011, which we are renaming P.U.S.S. Inappropriate Sessions, and which will be full of AWESOME

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date September 14, 2011
Categories In Community, News-ish, PASS Summit, SQLPASS
6 Comments on Announcing Inappropriate PASS Sessions 2011, which we are renaming P.U.S.S. Inappropriate Sessions, and which will be full of AWESOME

Update to the update: We raised over $1,000 for ProjectCure.org via this event, which is over 1,000 kinds of awesome. Proof here. UPDATE: The PUSS Inappropriate Sessions party is SOLD OUT! If you’d like to get on the last-minute wait list, fill out the survey below. And if you’d like to donate to PROJECT C.U.R.E., you can […]

Great Tools for Formatting T-SQL

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date September 12, 2011
Categories In Random helpfulness, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, Tips, TSQL
10 Comments on Great Tools for Formatting T-SQL

I have a big rant I add to….well, to every single SQL session I give. That rant is on formatting code. You see, (I say,) you can’t even begin to understand or optimize a query if it’s not formatted…and by “formattted”, I mean breaking out query clauses onto different lines, indenting column lists, etc etc. […]

Little Workaround in Report Manager

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date September 9, 2011
Categories In Random helpfulness, sql server, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC, SSRS, Tips
2 Comments on Little Workaround in Report Manager

I had an issue this week in Report Manager. I was generating a report (we’ll call it General Widgets Report), and from there clicking a link to generate and export a subreport (say, Individual Widget Report). The problem with this is that it wipes out initial report and its parameters…so every single time, I had […]