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Building a Data Warehouse with SQL Server
Today, I am going to start a series of blogs on one of my favorite topics Data Warehousing with SQL Server. I will start by defining a data warehouse. I will then give some business cases that explain the benefits of a data warehouse. Finally, I will start writing about ...
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SQLSaturday Update & Future Presentations
I wanted to give a quick update and thank everyone who has responded to my initial posting about bringing SQL Saturday to Wheeling, WV. I have spoken to a couple technology groups and several individuals and everyone is very supportive of this event. The following are upcoming work items: Establish ...
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Meet PASS Board Candidate Jeremiah Peschka
The PASS Board of Directors election starts on October 12th, and we’ve got four really well-qualified candidates to choose from: Brian Moran Jeremiah Peschka (Blog – Twitter) Matt Morollo (Twitter) Tom LaRock (Blog – Twitter) You can read their bios at the PASS Candidate List, and they’re good, but I ...
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PASS Virtualization VC Webcast: Virtualizing SQL Servers
For those who don’t know, PASS has several Virtual Chapters. Each VC has its own distinct topic they focus on. The most recent VC established is the Virtualization Virtual Chapter (say that 3 times fast). Our group is dedicated to helping spread the education of virtualization to folks who ...
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Off-Hours Work: A Guide For Managers
If you work in software development or IT long enough eventually you're going to find yourself in a situation where you have to work during off-hours; it's just the nature of the job and can happen for a variety of reasons like: hardware failure, a new client is brought on ...
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Check out the Ultimate Virtual Conference from SSWUG
In less than a month SSWUG will be hosting the Ultimate Virtual Conference on October 21-24. This is an excellent opportunity to get the benefits of heading to a conference full of Rock Star speakers while be able to view the content from the comforts of home or your desk ...
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Difference between Subquery, Nested Subquery and Correlated Subquery
Query: - Query can be defined as a way to inquire the data from the database. It is used to extract the data from one table or multiple tables depending upon the user needs.Suppose we have a two tables Student and courses whose structure is given below:-create table Student ...
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Policy Based Management: A Brief Walk-through
Over the last few months I have been doing the rounds at various user groups and SQL Saturday events presenting on Policy Based Management. In the spirit of my on-going SQL University project as well as the upcoming book I’m co-authoring with Ken Simmons (Blog | Twitter) and Colin Stasiuk ...
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PASS Board of Directors Elections
Well, it’s election season at PASS. The fun part is that I’m running this year. That’s right, yours truly is running for the PASS Board of Directors. So, here’s how it works: elections go from October 12th through October 20th. During that time you can vote ...
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SQL University: Basic Tools
Welcome to the first day of SQL University. Today we’re going to be talking about basic tools you’ll be using as a database administrator (DBA). Throughout our lessons you will notice I will be linking heavily to SQL Server Books Online. Books Online is the official documentation for ...
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