October 2010 - Posts

• Help support Itzik's plea for T-SQL Windowing functions

  One of our founders at Solid Quality , Itzik Ben-Gan is known to most in the SQL Community, particularly for his passion around the T-SQL language. He's recently written an amazing blog post that describes why these functions are needed, along with a Read More... Posted Saturday, October 09, 2010 4:33 PM by Greg Low | 9 Comments

• Worldwide Online Techday - More Latin American goodness

  I also got an email from one of our Brazilian colleagues at Solid Quality . Diego Norgare was telling me about the upcoming Worldwide Online TechDay that will be running on October 30th. Sessions are running in both Portuguese and also in English. You'll Read More... Posted Saturday, October 09, 2010 4:16 PM by Greg Low | 0 Comments

• 24 Hours of PASS for Latin America!

  One of the biggest pushes I was trying to make while on the PASS board was to help grow the organization into other areas of the world, and probably a little out of the organization's comfort zone. We in western English-speaking countries often totally Read More... Posted Saturday, October 09, 2010 3:24 PM by Greg Low | 2 Comments

• SQL Server 2008 R2 Idea: Data Profiling of any table in SSMS

  I love the data profiling task that was added to SSIS in SQL Server 2008. It allows you to get a profile of the data in a table - this includes things like what are potential candidate keys, what length are the data values in each column, what percentage Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 06, 2010 11:56 AM by Greg Low | 0 Comments