April 2011 - Posts

• Going to Plamen Ratchev’s T-SQL 2008 Coding Skills Pre-con -- Join Me?

  This week I signed up for Plamen Ratchev’s PASS SQLRally pre-con, “ Maximize Your SQL Server 2008 Coding Skills ,” and here’s why you ought to join me. This is a bit of an odd experience because, well, if you readers had voted a few more times for me, Read More... Posted Monday, April 18, 2011 1:22 PM by drsql | 0 Comments

• Chapter 6–Physical Database Creation Basics

  Or “Finally getting to use SQL Server like the dang name of the book implies” I am smack dab in the middle of chapter 6 now, and I have finally figured out the concept and how it is going to be. Originally, chapter 6 was going to be the start of a series Read More... Posted Saturday, April 16, 2011 11:45 AM by drsql | 0 Comments

• Big League Technical Staff

  So I was blissfully reading the twitter feed when @Tim_Mitchell tweeting the following article Consultants are pros, while corporate IT staff are minor leaguers by Erik Eckel, that for some reason seems to exist to feed the need that IT staffers have Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:55 AM by drsql | 8 Comments Filed under: consultants, Design, Development, Manners, Un-SQL

• The Process of Changing the Collation For a Database and Objects

  Note: This is a “classic” post lightly edited that I wrote a while back and a reader asked about it. It has nothing to do with the fact that LaRock downgraded my status on his site: http://thomaslarock.com/rankings/ The scenario that got me started on Read More... Posted Friday, April 08, 2011 11:36 PM by drsql | 2 Comments