T-SQL Tuesday #18 – CTEs

To CTE or not to CTE, that is the Question So my post really has nothing to do with the title.  This is not a post to help you determine whether a CTE is appropriate […]

T-SQL Tuesday #17 – APPLY Knowledge

We have another opportunity to write as a part of TSQL Tuesday today.  This month Matt Velic (Blog | Twitter).  Matt has proposed a challenge that was derived from a comment on twitter.  The challenge […]

T-SQL Tuesday #016: Aggregates and Statistics

For my data analysis and trending, I wanted to find a simple distribution across quartiles.

T-SQL Tuesday #15 DBA Automaton

Often, we hear about DBA’s automating everything under the sun.  Why?  It simplifies the job and creates time to work on other projects.

TSQL Tuesday 14: Committed

For this TSQL Tuesday post, I will just add a short list of my professional goals for this next year.  Otherwise, this post would be mostly about my non-professional goals.

T-SQL Tuesday #13 – Business Requirements

I think a common area that is easily overlooked when it comes to requirements and interpretation of requirements is report creation.  A common problem is that there are no defined or written requirements for the creation of a report.

T-SQL Tuesday #012 – Skills

November is upon us and in some areas this also means that the leaves have changed color.  With the change in leaves we also have a change in TSQL Ones…err Tuesday this month.  The change […]

A Haunting TSQL Tuesday Tale

If you truncate a table, you cannot undo the action like you can with a delete.  What is the difference between the two methods to remove data from a table?

October 2010 TSQL Tuesday Reminder

Holy Cow, another month has flown by without much of  a hint.   We now have upon us another TSQL Tuesday.  If you hadn’t heard or haven’t seen the twitter announcement, you can find it […]

TSQL Tuesday Indexes and Blobs

How does one find what columns were LOB columns in the database.  I knew I had some past blog posts about various aspects of LOBs, but I had never broken it down to find the columns in the LOB.  Even better was that I wanted to know what columns were in what index that were also a BLOB.