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SQLSaturday #136: Done & Dusted!
Phew! It’s Sunday afternoon and I’m starting to feel relatively normal again after a few hectic days doing the final prep work for yesterday’s SQLSaturday #136 here in Wellington, New Zealand. In the Beginning Preparation for the event started 3… continue reading…
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CURSORs and WHILE-Loops
Yes, I know this is a giant (some might say pointless, and I wouldn’t totally disagree) can of worms I’m opening here, but stay with me for a minute Why? We were discussing this at work a few months ago,… continue reading…
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What a turn-out!
I’ve been a little busy over the past few weeks; what with us taking a planned outage at work to perform a fairly major upgrade of both server hardware and clustering software, the Wellington SQL Server User Group keeping me… continue reading…
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SQL Saturday is coming to Wellington
The title pretty much says it all; we’ve got a SQL Saturday event confirmed for Wellington, on the 14th of April 2012! Rob Farley and a few other folks from PASS are organising 6 SQL Saturday events in a row… continue reading…
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Wellington SQL Server User Group
A few weeks ago I was asked to take over the running of the Wellington SQL Server User Group by the original founder of the group. I had been wanting to get more involved in the local SQL community, and… continue reading…
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Preventing identity overflow
Here’s a stored procedure I put together a week or so ago that I thought others might find useful. We had an issue which should really never be allowed to happen (but as they say, “shit happens”); a rather important… continue reading…