Every year in March, the Men's College Basketball Championship Tourney Begins. For the past few years, I've put together a ''League''. This year is no different. The prize... Bragging Rights - that's it - nothing else.... Follow the link below to sign up!...(read more)

SQL Saturday is coming to Charlotte next month! If you are in the area, come on by. We have a great line-up of speakers. Find out more information at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/33/eventhome.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...(read more)

Earlier today you may have seen a blog post of mine about a puzzle involving HAVING. You should read that post before this one. It was part of Adam Machanic’s T-SQL Tuesday meme. The question was about the query: SELECT 'No Rows' WHERE 1=2 HAVING 1=1; And here’s the explanation. Start by making yourself a "dual table", ...

Adam’s hosting another T-SQL Tuesday, for which this post is jumping in. He’s themed it around T-SQL Puzzles, which I found quite interesting, because the world is full of them. Most of the questions that I answer on forums, help sites, and so on, are puzzles. I guess there’s the difference between “Problem” and “Puzzle”, but I prefer to think of ...

As I reviewed the sessions by our pre/post-con speakers who also participated in the 24 Hours of PASS event, I was disturbed that the single session with the MOST attendees during the event had no audio (no one can hear you scream in cyber-space). Immediately,...(read more)

Once again, we will have a league for SQL Bloggers and Blog readers. Sign-up quickly as the season starts Thursday! But we probably won't start our fantasy season until week 2. Go to Yahoo's Fantasy Football - The League's ID is 667860 and the Password...(read more)

I have been busy on organizing an event which I hope that many in the community will find useful. The event will consist of 24 1-hour webcasts featuring some of the best community speakers on SQL Server. The event will begin 2-September-2009 at Midnight...(read more)

I haven’t done much SilverLight development – I’ve dabbled at best. And I don’t really count using DeepZoom Composer as proper SilverLight, but it makes a SilverLight application. So I’ve got one at http://www.lobsterpot.com.au/fixoutlook The background is that there’s a group of people who feel very strongly that Outlook should use proper ...

I remember my first PASS Summit in Denver in January 2002 (Delayed from Sep 2001 in Orlando due to Sep 11). One of the last sessions that I attended was led by Fabian Pascal. He runs a website called www.dbdebunk.com and is rather entertaining at times....(read more)

For the first time in my travel history, I was on a flight on Thursday night that offered Wi-Fi server (after reaching 10,000 feet).  I was on a rather short flight from ATL to GSO, but thought that I would give it a shot.  There are some sites that you can check out without paying a fee like your travel plans at delta.com and some basic ...