Wednesday, December 26, 2012

SQL Advent 2012: Recap

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Another year, another SQL Advent calendar has come to an end. This year there was not much SQL code after day 10, I still hope you found it ...
Wednesday, December 05, 2012

SQL Advent 2012 has started

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Just like last year, I decided to do a SQL Advent this year. There are 4 posts up so far Data types storage differences Sargable querie...
Monday, January 16, 2012

SQL Advent Recap and What is coming in SQL Server 2012 recap

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In case you missed these, here is a recap of the SQL Advent and the SQL Server 2012 posts SQL Advent Recap Day 1:  Date and time I...

OT: Being healthier as a geek

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This is not a technical post but I decided to spend a little of my blogging and web surfing time on my body this year...oh how vain right? O...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

SQL Advent 2011 series of posts

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I have started a series of post about upgrading your skills to 2005 and 2008 versions of your code from 2000. Below is a list of posts that ...
Friday, July 15, 2011

6 new SQL Server Denali CTP3 posts

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I have created 6 new SQL Server Denali CTP3 posts These posts are about the new things introduced in SQL Server Denali CTP3, below is a list...
Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Post I created about SQL Server Denali

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Today at PASS the SQL Server team has publicly announced the first Community Technology Preview of the next version of SQL Server code named...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Win A Copy Of SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action

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Rod Colledge was kind to give the readers of Less Than Dot a chance to win a pdf copy of his book SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action ...
Monday, September 28, 2009

10 must read SQL Server posts by Ted Krueger

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A buddy of mine Ted Krueger writes some really interesting SQL Server posts. Most of these posts focus more on administration than on develo...
Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Some SQL Server posts I wrote lately and I now have a RSS feed just for my posts on lessthandot.com

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The reason I am writing this post is that we now have RSS feeds on lessthandot for a specific author. In my case the RSS feed is the follow...
Monday, November 24, 2008

With this post I bid you all adieu

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I have posted on this blog for a little over 3 years now and decided it is time to call it quits at this URL. All SQL Server related post fr...
Friday, October 31, 2008

SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 Beta and SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack October 2008 available for download

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SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 Beta and SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack October 2008 are available for download Download SQL Server 2005 Servic...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008

today is a sad day

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This was not the way I envisioned going back to Amsterdam. My mom past away today, two weeks shy of her 60th birthday Since my passport was ...
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Friday, October 03, 2008

Help me win this bet

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You might know that some friends and myself have launched a site named  LessThanDot , this is a site where users can collaborate via the  wi...
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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Interview With Louis Davidson Author of Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Database Design and Implementation

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I interviewed Louis Davidson in 2005 about the 2005 edition of his book. I did another one today about Pro SQL Server 2008 Relational Databa...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Interesting Bug/Feature In SQL Server 2008 RTM

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Someone had a problem with 8 year old procs which started to fail after moving to SQL Server 2008 Of course he should have used ints, but le...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Only In A Database Can You Get 1000% + Improvement By Changing A Few Lines Of Code

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Take a look at this query. SELECT * FROM ( SELECT customer_id, ‘MTD’ AS record_type, COUNT ( * ) , SUM ( … ) , AVG ( … ) FROM payment_t...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

SQL Tip, Compiling Your SQL Without Running It to See If It Would Run

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Let's say you have a big SQL script with a ton of code and you want to make sure it runs but you don't want to execute it because it...
Monday, August 11, 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Available For Download

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Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/thankyou.aspx?familyId=fbee1648-7106-44a7-9649-6d9f6d58056e&displayLang=en Here is the l...
Wednesday, August 06, 2008

SQL Server 2008 is RTM

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that is right and you can already download it from MSDN