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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:30 PM

DWWTWT?: March 30-31

The month and quarter end with a return to productivity from home after last week’s excitement : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 164 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 192 None (did
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Saturday, March 28, 2009 4:00 PM

DWWTWT?: March 23-27

Spent the week dealing with what’s been diagnosed as an intestinal infection. Not recommended and very limiting to productivity, which was nonexistent this week : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted
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Friday, March 20, 2009 5:15 PM

DWWTWT?: March 16-20

Another full week of telecommuting, this one culminating with a celebration of the vernal equinox : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport Number of Invocations Telecommuted 162 Walked 218 Walked to the Bus 17 Drove 192 None (did
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Friday, March 20, 2009 12:00 PM

Database Programming: The OPENROWSET Trick, Revisited

One of the most popular posts in the history of this little corner of the Internets is one from August, 2005, which describes a method for accessing stored procedure output in a SELECT statement which I’ve come to refer to as “ the OPENROWSET trick .”
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:00 PM

IE8 is Here!

Microsoft’s newest web browser, Internet Explorer 8, was released about three hours ago and is now available for download here . If you want it, go get it! -wp this copyrighted material was originally posted at http://blogs.technet.com/wardpond .  
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 7:45 AM

Better Late Than Never: Disaster Recovery Webcast This Morning

I’m a little late to the party here, but this is pretty apropos of some of our discussions here lately. Brent Ozar is hosting a Disaster Recovery Horror Stories webcast this morning at 11a ET/8a PT.  You can read the full details here . I don’t think
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Sunday, March 15, 2009 3:00 PM

What I Know Now: Ward’s Epistle to the N00bs

And I remember what she said to me How she swore that it never would end I remember how she held me, oh so tight Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then Bob Seger, Against the Wind All you need is love Love is all you need John Lennon and Paul
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Friday, March 13, 2009 11:45 PM

Paul S. Randal Posts Some Sobering Statistics

Paul’s name should be familiar to denizens of the SQL Server blogosphere. Along with his wife, Kimberley Tripp , he’s a principal of SQL Skills (home also to the redoubtable Bob Beauchemin , with whom I share a birth date of significance to SQL Server
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Friday, March 13, 2009 5:30 PM

DWWTWT?: March 9-13

After last week’s brief foray into internal combustion, this week marked a return to normal (or at least what passes for normal in these parts) as I returned to a full week of telecommuting : Commuting Options Selected since 12 June 2006 Mode of Transport
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:00 PM

TechNet White Paper on SQL Server Virtualization Now Available

Great news today from Mark Pohto: the TechNet White Paper SQL Server Consolidation at Microsoft has just been posted. You can download a Microsoft Word document here , or read it on-line here . In addition to being one of the world’s leading experts on
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Monday, March 09, 2009 9:15 PM

As Spring Approaches, a SQL Blogger’s Thoughts Turn to Daylight and Baseball

As we progress towards the Ides of March, one of my best friends-who-I’ve-never-met, Jimmy May , notes our annual transition to Daylight Savings Time , in a post he generously concludes with a link to one of this very blog’s oldies but goodies . In his
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Saturday, March 07, 2009 2:45 AM

Database Programming: NULL and (NOT) IN Don’t Mix Well

Jens Suessmeyer is a Microsoft Consultant in Germany who frequently shares his useful techniques and insights both inside Microsoft and in the community at large.  In his latest post , he answers a colleague’s question with a simple yet thorough
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Saturday, March 07, 2009 2:15 AM

DWWTWT?: March 2-6

Here’s another seasonal query for you : select datediff ( dd , '10/20/2008' , '3/3/2009' ) ----------- 134 The significance of the query was alluded to in last week’s commuting post. This past Tuesday I had to drive to Tampa for a laptop repair. This
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Monday, March 02, 2009 9:45 AM

Microsoft Hosting Silverlight 2 Developer Contest with $5000 Prize

This week I’m hoping to get through my backlog of postable material. It makes sense to start with the time-sensitive stuff.. Microsoft is asking game developers to bring their best ideas to light using Silverlight 2, a flexible new platform for delivering
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