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by Mike Walsh on 18. Dec, 2009 in #sqlhelp, Community, SQL Server, Syndicate, Troubleshooting

A Great Idea – #SQLHelp hashtag on Twitter
I was following a conversation today between Brent Ozar, who is @BrentO on twitter and Aaron Nelson, who is @SQLVariant on twitter.
A great idea was discussed: A twitter hashtag that, as Jorge Segarra (or @SQLChicken on twitter) describes it in his blog post, can act like a bat [...]

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T-SQL Tuesday #001 – Dates and Time

by Mike Walsh on 08. Dec, 2009 in #tsqltuesday, SQL Server, Syndicate, T-SQL

Adam Machanic, who blogs at SQLBlog.com (lots of great sql bloggers over there) started a neat tradition: T-SQL Tuesday. Read his post here to see the rules and information but it’s basically a weekly (2nd Tuesday of each month) blog topic where we can all have a post about the same topic. I like this [...]

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How do -you- (I) use SQL Server?

by Mike Walsh on 04. Dec, 2009 in DBA, General, SQL Server, Syndicate

I was recently tagged in an interesting blog post by A Misplaced New Englander, David Taylor. (dyfhid on twitter). The question sounds simple enough, “How do you use SQL Server where you work?” Of course the answer is not simple. I echo Grant Fritchey’s response in his blog post that it would be easier to [...]

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Worked fine in development…

by Mike Walsh on 22. Jul, 2009 in Performance, Pet Peeve, SQL Server, Syndicate

How many times have you heard or uttered those words? You work hard and understand the business requirements, you try and get the logic to work to make the procedure return what was expected or update the data as expected. You do some unit tests in your environment, it may not scream but it comes [...]

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