This is the 47th episode of Memory Lane. Here is the list of selected articles of SQLAuthority.com across all these years. Instead of just listing all the articles I have selected a few of my most favorite articles and have listed them here with additional notes below it. My favorite blog posts are about UDF and the difference between UPDATE and UPDATE (). Let me know which one of the following is your favorite article from memory lane.
Developer – Best Practices for Daily Stand-Up or Daily Scrum – Rules and Regulations
Scrum is an Agile Software Development framework that helps teams complete projects efficiently while maintaining high quality.
SQL Contest – Identify the Database Celebrity – Win USD 100 Amazon Gift Card
Regular readers of this blog are familiar with NuoDB and their generous offers for SQLAuthority.com readers. I was just talking to them earlier and together we have come up with a very interesting contest for all of us. This contest has two parts. Part 1 Identify Database Personality and in Part…
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Earlier this week, I ran five part series on UNION and it received very good response. Today I learned from Amazon that for a brief period of the time (to be precise for next 96 hours) they have reduced the price for price of Kindle Book of SQL Server Interview…
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Detecting Potential Bottlenecks with the help of Profiler
Probably, everyone who writes SQL code has used INSERT statement, which alongside SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE, is a part of a basic operations’ set for data manipulation. At the first sight syntax of the INSERT statement may seem very trivial , especially when inserting one record – INSERT INTO ……
Read MoreSQL SERVER – Execute Operating System Commands in sqlcmd
Here is the email received just the other day – “Hi Pinal, I have been using sqlcmd for a long time and I find it very comfortable. I am going to soon learn Powershell as well. However, here is one typical problem I face it every day and I want to check…
Read MorePersonal Technology – Who is Accessing your Google Account?
Do you know who is accessing your Google Account? Well, I did not know till yesterday. However, when I learn what apps are accessing my Google Accounts and particularly Gmail, I was really really scared. I receive lots of emails and just like all of us, some are private and…
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