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SQLAuthority News – Community Tech Days – A SQL Legends in Ahmedabad – December 11, 2010

December 2, 2010

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

Ahmedabad is going to be fortunate city again on December 11. We are going to have SQL Server Legends present at the prestigious event of Community Tech Days in Ahmedabad. The venue details are as following: H K Hall, H K College Campus, Near Handloom House, Opp. Natraj Cinema, Ashram…

SQL SERVER – Automated Type Conversion using Expressor Studio

November 30, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

Database, SQL Scripts, SSIS

Recently I had an interesting situation during my consultation project. Let me share to you how I solved the problem using Expressor Studio. Consider a situation in which you need to read a field, such as customer_identifier, from a text file and pass that field into a database table. In…

SQLAuthority News – What’s New in SQL Server “Denali”

November 24, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

I was today doing SQL Server Advanced Training at Bangalore and I had few attendees asked me if I can give them review of the SQL Server Denali. I had not downloaded Denali on my work computer so I could not do demonstration of the same. However, I promised to…

SQLAuthority News – Statistics and Best Practices – Virtual Tech Days – Nov 22, 2010

November 22, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

MVP, SQL Joins, SQL Statistics

I am honored that I have been invited to speak at Virtual TechDays on Nov 22, 2010 by Microsoft. I will be speaking on my favorite subject of Statistics and Best Practices. This exclusive online event will have 80 deep technical sessions across 3 days – and, attendance is completely…

SQLAuthority News – Book Review – Beginning T-SQL 2008 by Kathi Kellenberger

November 20, 2010

Pinal Dave

SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQLAuthority Book Review

Beginning T-SQL 2008 by Kathi Kellenberger Amazon Link Detail Review: Beginning T-SQL 2008 is one of the best books on the market if you are just beginning to work with Microsoft SQL, or have a little bit of experience and need to learn more quickly. Each chapter of the book…

SQLAuthority News – Blog Stats Revealed

November 19, 2010

Pinal Dave

Personal, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

I often receive praises, questions, suggestions and skeptical emails regarding my blog stats. Let me put everything aside and open up my stats page for all. I use wordpress.com and stats are maintained by them. Every month, I will put the blog stats on the following page for every one’s…

SQLAuthority News – SQL Server Performance Series Hyderabad / Pune – Nov/Dec 2010

November 18, 2010

Pinal Dave

Personal, SQL, SQL Performance, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks, SQLAuthority News

SQL Scripts

Just a quick note that SQL Server Performance Tuning and Optimizations Seminar series which I am offering at Hyderabad and Pune are almost all sold out. Read the details of the earlier successful seminar conducted at Colombo, Sri Lanka over here. Hyderabad Nov 27-28, 2010 (Last 3 Seats Left) Best…