SQL Saturday is coming to Wellington
Announcing SQL Saturday #136 in Wellington, New Zealand, on 14 April 2012, as part of the ANZ SQL Saturday Tour. Speakers and attendees welcome.
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Wellington SQL Server User Group
Taking over leadership of the Wellington SQL Server User Group, a PASS chapter running monthly sessions on SQL Server topics.
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Preventing identity overflow
A SQL Server stored procedure that checks identity columns across all databases and sends an alert when values approach the data type maximum.
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PASS Summit trip wrap-up
A recap of attending the PASS Summit in Seattle, followed by a week-long Harley road trip through Northern California.
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How’s the weather in Seattle?
Heading to the PASS Summit in Seattle for the first time, with plans for a Harley Davidson road trip through California afterwards.
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SQL Server word-level bigram function
A T-SQL function for generating word-level bigrams from search strings, useful for building did-you-mean and search auto-suggest systems.
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Tech Ed done, bring on PASS Summit!
Reflections on presenting at Tech Ed New Zealand 2011, feedback and lessons learned, and looking ahead to PASS Summit in Seattle.
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Getting ready for Tech Ed New Zealand
Preparing to present a session at Tech Ed New Zealand about Trade Me's database infrastructure and architecture journey to 70 million page views.
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Snow snow snow!
A rare snowfall hit Wellington, New Zealand, turning the neighbourhood into a winter wonderland and making for an interesting motorbike commute.
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T-SQL Tuesday #21 - Temporarily permanent hacks
Common DBA shortcuts that become permanent tech debt: temporary logging tables, backup table copies, hard-coded values, and scheduled job sprawl.
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