Category: SSC

SQLPASS Day 2: Keynote Live Blog

 I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 9:37 local time.    Here’s the PASS website description of the day 2 keynote …we had no surprise celebrity impersonators today.  Initial notes:  Bill Graziano is NOT, repeat, NOT wearing a kilt.  He had the kilted stand up…nearly the entire bloggers’ tables, and half a handful elsewhere.  Talking about making friends […]

SQLPASS Day 1: Keynote Live Blog

  I’m live blogging the PASS keynote…it’s 9:56 local time.    You wouldn’t guess by the PASS website description of the day 1 keynote the tone set right off the bat…    Senior Vice President, Business Platform Division Microsoft Corp.    Ted Kummert will open Day 1 of PASS Summit 2010 by highlighting continued innovation across Microsoft’s business […]

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 […]