February 2011 - Posts

• Time for the yearly Microsoft Pilgrimage known as the MVP Summit

  One of the most fun events of the year is the MVP Summit if perhaps for no other reason than my preparation for it is packing a suitcase. No presentations to write, prepare for, nothing. No activities that I have to do anything more than show up with Read More... Posted Saturday, February 26, 2011 7:19 PM by drsql | 6 Comments Filed under: MVP

• Chapters Two, Three, and Four

  I am trying to blog all of the chapters of the book, but due to deadlines and a lot of shuffling about, I never got around it for these three chapters, two of which I have added since I wrote the original table of contents. All of these contain mostly Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 22, 2011 11:21 PM by drsql | 0 Comments Filed under: Database Design, Writing

• Some date math fun

  Note: This concept presented is pretty simple and I am not claiming that I am the first to do this… so if you were the one who came up with this, let me know and I will give you linkage Today I was needing to get the data for the current month for a query, Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:01 AM by drsql | 6 Comments