24 Hours of PASS…again!
To some it may seem like I post about 24 hours of @PASS regularly, but is it a bad thing? Free web-based SQL information and training from industry professionals? You won’t hear me complaining! This set seems like it’s a little better than before, the link to the event is here. The sessions I will be attending are: WHY DATA WAREHOUSING PROJECTS FAIL (AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT). IDENTIFYING COSTLY QUERIES SQLBI METHODOLOGY T-SQL BRUSH-UP: THE BEST THINGS…
Long SQL query time and account permissions
My good friend @MichaelPerillo and I were recently discussing the possible cause for a SQL query to take an excessively long time, even though proper measures had been taken to ensure performance tuning had taken place. He made a suggestion that I believe is noteworthy, so I’m putting it here, also so I can reference it later. A transactional SQL database performs each transaction in a queue, assigning each transaction a queue request. Queue requests are prioritized not only by…
Returning the Nth weekday in SQL…and in InfoPath
Ok, after much research I found a forum that had a posting that demonstrated how to get the Nth chosen weekday of a month using T-SQL. Here’s the code: DECLARE @date datetimeDECLARE @weekday intDECLARE @day datetimeDECLARE @number intDECLARE @WhichOne int SELECT @WhichOne = 2 — Set this to the week you want to grabSELECT @number = 1SELECT @weekday = 0SELECT @date = getDate() — Change to dateadd(month, 1, getDate()) for next month, etc. WHILE @weekday 4 — Change this value…
New code library site
I created a basic code library site to host all of the code snippets I’ve gathered and/or created over time. Go here to visit the site. It’s pretty basic and empty right now, I’ll dress it up a little more as time goes on. I’m also trying to determine a better way of sub-categorizing the code in each of the language tabs. I welcome suggestions. Enjoy!
Problems installing SQL 2008
I had originally installed SQL 2005 Express on my laptop, and something happened during the installation and it got corrupted. I was unable to uninstall, whether I used Add/Remove programs, ran setup.exe ACTION=uninstall from the command line while in the SQL root path, even if I used msicuu2 and msizap to look for the GUIDs associated with SQL 2005. Nothing worked. I thought installing SQL 2008 Express might “fix” or overwrite something and then get me the latest version to…