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Are Technical Blogs Dying?
Read more: Are Technical Blogs Dying?As I sit here on a Sunday afternoon at my keyboard, looking for blogs to highlight, I notice something. A lot of people I know have blogs, and a lot of them are not active (or aren’t very active). I won’t name names or anything, but it is a bit depressing. There are a zillion…
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Temporary Stored Procedures in SQL Server
Read more: Temporary Stored Procedures in SQL ServerPretty much every T-SQL programmer knows about temp tables very early in their journey with the language. They are generally wonderful tools that, when used properly, can be invaluable for storing data for a short amount of time. When used improperly they can be somewhat problematic, but certainly they are a tool we all use…
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T-SQL Tuesday #191 – Your Favorite String Parsing
Read more: T-SQL Tuesday #191 – Your Favorite String ParsingThank you to Steve Jones for this month’s invitation. While this time it was Steve who was late getting it out, to be fair, I didn’t realize that other than the fact that he said it was late. When I got the reminder last week I was on vacation I said “bah, maybe not this month”…
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Concatenating values as character data including in SQL Server 2025
Read more: Concatenating values as character data including in SQL Server 2025I was looking around for stuff to post about the other day, so I read through the latest What’s new in SQL Server 2025 and I found this: || (String concatenation) Concatenate expressions with expression || expression. My interest was piqued to say the least. Using + to concatenate string data has always had its…
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SQL Saturday Orlando 2025 Roundup
Read more: SQL Saturday Orlando 2025 RoundupI am a tardy reporter this trip. My positive spin on this tardiness it was that I wanted to stretch the memories out for a bit longer than normal. (My truthful spin is that I was tired from vacation after the conference and then had some things I needed to do first!) This year was…
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Is the iPad Enough for Remote Work?
Read more: Is the iPad Enough for Remote Work?I am this close to using an iPad as my only roaming device…but not completely. For the past few years, I have used an iPad more and more for my daily work when I am not at my desk with my big monitors. I started this out on a 11-inch Pro device that I used…
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Feedly Friday – Feeds I Read #11 – Tales from the Field
Read more: Feedly Friday – Feeds I Read #11 – Tales from the FieldFeeds I Read Page | Other Feedly Friday Posts Welcome to my continuing series of posts where I am going to highlight one or two feeds I follow in my Feedly feeds. Technology feeds only, though I keep up with other things like theme park news in there too. Feedly is an RSS reader that you can use…
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Fun with COUNT aggregate calls
Read more: Fun with COUNT aggregate callsI was reading LinkedIn posts the other day when I saw this blog about what was apparently an interview question about some forms of a COUNT aggregate function This was apparently asked in an interview. What will each of these constructs do in a SQL statement: The correct answers the poster gave were not the…
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Who is your biggest critic?
Read more: Who is your biggest critic?If there is one thing everyone needs, but doesn’t want, it is criticism. I mean, clearly none of us like it, but we all need it. We need it to keep us humble, and we need it to learn. It is something I have written about before, in this article about how valuable feedback is,…
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Feedly Friday – Feeds I Read #10 – Kellyn Gorman
Read more: Feedly Friday – Feeds I Read #10 – Kellyn GormanFeeds I Read Page | Other Feedly Friday Posts Welcome to my continuing series of posts where I am going to highlight one or two feeds I follow in my Feedly feeds. Technology feeds only, though I keep up with other things like theme park news in there too. Feedly is an RSS reader that you can use that is…
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