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This is the second time I’m writing a post in the “Meme Monday” series and this time it originates from Tom LaRock (blog | twitter). The topic is : What #SQLfamily means to me. This weekend I participated in a #SQLfamily reunion in Washington, DC. Some might argue that this is called SQL Saturday #96 [...] I am deeply honored that I was chosen to present 2 sessions at SQL Saturday #96 in Washington, DC this Saturday, November 5, 2011! Location is: Microsoft MTC 5404 Wisconsin Ave, Suite 700 Chevy Chase, MD 20815 View Larger Map Subway: Friendship Heights Metro Station SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those [...] Last week Erin Stellato (blog| twitter) has asked a very interesting question on Twitter that triggered this post: So how is it you can have good perf in Oracle, w/o IOTs, but in SQL Server, everyone says need CIs for good perf? There are two aspects to that question What is the difference between index [...] Today Mladen Prajdic posted a on Twitter a SQL statement that captured my attention: (http://twitter.com/MladenPrajdic/status/9878219727) SELECT CONVERT(varchar(50), N’æøåáäĺćçčéđńőöřůýţžš’) COLLATE Cyrillic_General_CI_AI returns aoaaalcccednooruytzs If you notice the conversion to Cyrillic_General_CI_AI collation his shows an interesting mechanism for code page translation that we could not explain: Why does Cyrillic_General_CI_AI or Greek_CI_AI collation successfully convert accents to their base ascii [...] After attending a presentation on SQL Azure by Microsoft’s George Huey an interesting topic came to my mind in regards to the actual use for a cloud based database that has over 1400 incompatibilities with SQL Server: What’s the use for this since it is not a viable alternative to a production database. I would [...] I’m heading home from the August session of Chicago PASS and SSUG meeting. First off, this was the biggest meeting in Chicago. Over 80 people signed up and for a very good reason. After a very interesting Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration with Windows PowerShell presentation by The MAK and Yan Pan, Allan Hirt managed [...] Eduard gives us the following problem: The result is that every 4 years for a day you realized the money spent on a Zune are wasted http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/31/30gb-zunes-mysteriously-begin-to-fail-at-12am-december-31st/ Now for the Microsoft solution (Please refrain from ROTFL ! ): Follow these steps: Disconnect your Zune from USB and AC power sources. Because the player [...] |
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