Did you want to speak at the upcoming PASS 2009 Community Summit? Well, now is your chance! The call for speakers went out today and you can find all of the details at
http://www.sqlpass.org/Community/SpeakerResource.aspx
The deadline for submission of abstracts is April 10th, so do not put this off any longer. Get motivated and submit your ideas as [...]
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“Amaze Another Person With Your Grasp Of Acronyms”
Whenever I think of people that abuse acronyms I always think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UqqjEeWP9Y
I am always impressed confused when people talk to me using acronyms as if I am supposed to understand everything. Perhaps it was all those years I spent teaching math to some very disinterested college [...]
Upcoming AppDev SIG Presentation
On Tuesday March 31st Jeremiah Peschka will be presenting a session for the Application Development SIG titled “Dynamic SQL: What’s All the Fuss About, Anyway?”. The time is set for 1PM EDT (1700UTC). When the livemeeting details are final I will post them here as well.
For a list of other SIG events, visit the SIG [...]
NOCOUNT and User Options
Recently we had a vendor suggest to us that we turn off the option for NOCOUNT on their database. Upon hearing this my first question was, naturally, why? What was the issue such that they would say they wanted this turned off for their database(s)? Those questions were immediately followed by, naturally, how? How do [...]