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  1. SSIS – Two Ways Using Expressions Can Make Your Life Easier – Multi DB Select, Non Standard DB Select

    In SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), pretty much every task or transformation lets you set “expressions” up. Expressions are basically ways to set property values programmatically. Here are two scenarios where you might use expressions (there are 100’s of uses, these are just two that are kind of related ...

  2. SQLAuthority News – Gandhinagar SQL Server User Group Meeting April 24, 2009

    We had another successful Gandhinagar SQL Server User Group Meeting on April 24, 2009. In spite of our User Group being just two months old, it received overwhelming warm response from the audience! The meeting once again saw around 50 SQL Server enthusiasts eagerly looking forward to brush up their ...

  3. If SQL Server Was a Musician

    Last week I started riffing a bit after viewing a Penny Arcade strip that fired a warning shot over the bow of Courtney Love.  That strip led to three memes on Twitter and beyond: #sqlservereditions and the blog post by Brent Ozar in regards to funny little asides on Fake ...

  4. Database Screening Questions

    With all the cool kids posting about beginners and interview questions, I thought I’d toss my favorites out there, from the brief-case gang point of view. These are the technical phone-screening questions I use after I look at a resume. There are only 10. They’re simple. Stupid simple ...

  5. EDMPASS Initial Meeting!!

    OK here we go… In May the Edmonton Chapter of PASS is going to have it’s 1st meeting. Details below: Date:  May 28th 2009Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmLocation: Stanley A. Milner libraryMap: 7 Sir Winston Churchill SquareMeeting Room: 6th Floor - Room 7Speaker ...

  6. CBusPASS Meeting - May 14th

    Two weeks from today, Brent Ozar will be speaking at CBusPASS. This time around Brent will be presenting on Using Cloud-Based BI to Interpret Perfmon & Profiler Results. LiveMeeting will be available. There won’t be a dial-in number, though. Why? Because the sound will travel through Brent’s microphone, into ...

  7. Do you have a TAM?

    Disclaimer: I mean what I am going to post. This is not a Microsoft fan boy post. That would include a conversation about my Zune, the Xbox 360 I don't have or something... I think this is a great resource for a Microsoft shop. A TAM? Technical Account Manager ...

  8. How to Get a Junior DBA Job - Part 2

    Yesterday I talked about why companies aren’t hiring junior DBAs, and today I’ll talk about how you can get in the door anyway. Companies are Cheap, and DBAs are Expensive Even in a healthy economy, companies want to get a bargain.  They want to hire an experienced senior ...

  9. Sysadmin Lockout

    I ran across this issue today and thought I'd throw a quick post together. On a particular SQL Server 2008 instance, all of the windows accounts/groups defined as SQL Server sysadmins had been removed, and the server was operating in windows integrated security mode. In SQL Server 2008 ...

  10. Thank You For The Submissions

    The Call For Speakers for the 2009 PASS Summit Unite closed last Friday.  We had a great turnout and now comes the time for the Program Committee to knuckle-down and do just a little bit of reading.  (That is quite the understatement, trust me.)  These volunteers have a daunting task ...

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