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  1. MCM exam passed, time to prep for the lab.

    I just received notice today that I received a passing score on the first of the MCM exams.  I must say, that the few weeks have been extremely nerve racking waiting for the results.  I took the exam the day before Thanksgiving (which was awesome since the testing center is ...

  2. Social Leadership And The SQL Community

    2010 is rapidly coming to a close and in retrospect this has been a fantastic year of growth for the SQL Server Community. Many well known people have made the move to new jobs. Even more SQL Server professionals have joined the community on Twitter. On the PASS front there ...

  3. 24HOP WIT in March? Jen says YES.

    Gender, gender differences, differences in the workplace…all touchy subjects. We’ve handled the WIT talks – both in person and online – pretty well this year in the SQL community, but of course we continue to have our differences. At the PASS Summit Women in Technology luncheon this year, Tom LaRock ...

  4. Step By Step PowerPivot using Excel Data

    This post is a step by step beginner’s guide to PowerPivot.  I will show the basics of creating a PowerPivot workbook using Excel data.  PowerPivot has dramatically improved the way in which we can analyze our data in Excel.  Using PowerPivot in an Excel PivotChart provides the added benefit ...

  5. Step By Step PowerPivot using Excel Data

    This post is a step by step beginner’s guide to PowerPivot. I will show the basics of creating a PowerPivot workbook using Excel data. PowerPivot has dramatically improved the way in which we can analyze our data in Excel. Using PowerPivot in an Excel PivotChart provides the added benefit ...

  6. Happy One Year Anniversary, #SQLHelp!

    One year ago today, #SQLHelp was born. Aaron Nelson (Blog – @SQLVariant) had the brilliant idea to set up a hash tag on Twitter that anyone could use whenever they had a question.  I thought it was sheer genius, so I explained how to use #SQLhelp on my blog, and ...

  7. SQL Service Pack installation through Automatic Updates

    My responses to 3 questions in the past 2 weeks has prompted this post. The issue is something like this. Windows Automatic Updates is enabled on an instance running SQL Server Windows Update prompts that a new SQL Service Pack/Hotfix is available to be installed and the user installs ...

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