My third day at SQL PASS Summit 2009: a late start after the parties, breakfast with Solid Quality Mentors and an entertaining keynote full of demos.
SQLAuthority News – SQL PASS Summit, Seattle 2009 Day 2
PASS Summit Seattle 2009 Day 2 began with Twitter bingo, then breakfast with SQL friends, a karma lesson about a borrowed pen, and keynote notes.
SQLAuthority News – SQLPASS Summit, Seattle 2009 – Day 1
Day 1 at SQLPASS Summit 2009 in Seattle, told mostly in photos: the city tour, registration, sessions and the SQL friends I met along the way.
SQLAuthority News – 3 Year Old Blog – PASS Summit 2009 – 10.5 Million Views
SQLAuthority.com is 3 years old today, with 10.5 million views and 1140+ articles, and I am celebrating at my very first SQL PASS Summit in Seattle.
SQL Authority News – Advanced T-SQL with Itzik Ben-Gan – Solid Quality Mentors
My review of the Advanced T-SQL course with Itzik Ben-Gan: I had taught a similar course in India, yet I learned a lot of new things in five days.
Preventing Overlapping Date Ranges in a Table
Detect overlapping date ranges with joins and window queries, use half-open endpoints, and enforce the rule with a multirow trigger.
SQLAuthority News – India Market and Third Party SQL Server Tools
At a meeting of 100+ ISV managers in India, one topic stood out for me: the adoption of third party SQL Server tools. My notes from the discussion.