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  1. CTE: Coolest T-SQL Enhancement

    This blog entry is participating in T-SQL Tuesday #018, hosted this month by Bob Pusateri.You are invited to visit his blog and join the party and read more blogs participating in this month’s theme: CTEs. CTE stands for Common Table Expression, but it should stand for Coolest T-SQL ...

  2. Accessing Registry using XPs (contd..) – TSQL

    While xp_regread read values from registry under exact path specified. To read instance specific registry entries from registry you can use xp_instance_regenumvalues and xp_instance_regread. xp_instance_regread translates the given path to instance-specific path in the registry: for example, executing following code against a SQL 2008 Instance returns the default database location ...

  3. PASS Summit Cometh, and That Right Soon

    Look at the cute bunny. Now go vote for me. I can see October from here, and it’s coming at about 137mph (that’s 220.47kph for you nonAmericans). This year’s PASS Summit 2011 starts on October 11, and this year they’re asking you to vote for ...

  4. PASS Summit 2011 Abstracts

    I’ve put in several abstracts for the 2011 Summit. This year we’re voting for preferred sessions. If you’re interested in any of the ones I’ve listed below, please consider giving me a vote.I was very kindly invited to submit for a spotlight session (for which ...

  5. Best explanation I’ve seen of SQL 2000 SP4 self blocking

    I stumbled upon the best explanation I’ve seen of the self-blocking that we sometimes see in SQL Server 2000 SP4. I’ve used Sherlock and other tools in the past and always been dumbfounded by what I was seeing. There are many folks still stuck with SQL 2000 with ...

  6. Best explanation I’ve seen of SQL 2000 SP4 self blocking

    I stumbled upon the best explanation I’ve seen of the self-blocking that we sometimes see in SQL Server 2000 SP4. I’ve used Sherlock and other tools in the past and always been dumbfounded by what I was seeing. There are many folks still stuck with SQL 2000 with ...

  7. Pass summit abstracts

    I missed the Pass summit last November for a number of reasons, but I’m hoping I can attend this year. Given that, I submitted a number of abstracts for consideration. The limits on number were as follows: Up to 4 abstracts for regular, spotlight or half-day sessions (ie main ...

  8. EMC World 2011 Day 1

    So today was the first official day of EMC world. I had a great time meeting some fantastic people like Chuck Hollis from EMC. There were also some fantastic sessions. This year EMC is doing something new and putting the sessions online through an iPad app as well as putting ...

  9. Runtime Interaction with SSIS Packages - Confirming Actions

    In developing my data warehouse ETL processes, there are some packages and SQL Agent jobs that are both necessary to the process of deploying a new version of the ETL system - and yet are extremely dangerous. These packages "reset" certain control infomation to a known state, which is a ...

  10. Use ACE Drivers and PowerShell to Talk to Text Files

    As a follow up to my SQLRally 2011 Scripting Guy Guest Blog Post which dealt with Excel and Access files, this post explorers working with delimited text files using the ACE driver. What about Import-CSV? One of the first things I do when working with PowerShell is first look at ...

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