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A busy weekend here in central Florida, as I established two new personal domains: http://WardPond.net , my personal website, and http://pondsponderings.wordpress.com , my personal blog While you’ve been in no danger of being deluged by personal traffic...
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It’s been exactly five years since this blog went live with a questionable Admiral Stockdale reference, and despite an extended hiatus recently to due a confluence of personal and professional issues, your interest in my ponderings continues to a humbling...
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Celebrating the first day of Summer with the first technical post on the blog since mid-Winter (apologies for my absence).. Jens has a great post regarding the internal behavior of various forms of sp_-named programmability objects. Some SQLRAP...
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Can you tell I’m going through my inbox tonight? Just in case you missed it (and you certainly did if you were using me as your primary source of information!), the August Community Technology Preview release of SQL Server 2008 R2 is available for download...
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Whether you are currently unemployed, looking for a promotion, or trying to become indispensible in your existing role, Microsoft has launched a new Career Campaign to provide learning paths and guidance to help you get trained for some of the top IT...
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You might have heard about this somewhere else.. but Windows 7 was launched today . I recently got an upgraded laptop from my employer, upon which I installed Windows 7. Both the machine and the software are quite remarkable. First, the machine...
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Herewith, a discussion of the emergence of Pond’s Thirteenth Law (if you need to catch up, here are Laws One through Ten , Eleven , and Twelve , as well as three ruminations on the implications of Pond’s Seventh Law ).. One of the great things about my...
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Exciting news for the developer community: yesterday Microsoft released the second beta for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4. Click here for the download page. If you need it, go get it! -wp this copyrighted material was originally posted...
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The following description of a pending webcast arrived in my inbox earlier this week; I thought it might be of interest to some of you as you prepare for the launch of Windows 7: Is Your Organization Ready for Windows 7? October 6, 2009 12:00 PM Eastern...
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Two Microsoft folks frequently featured in this space, Microsoft Certified Masters Jimmy May and Jens Suessmeyer , have joined forces to bring to the world SQLIOSimParser, a tool to parse and interpret the XML output of the Bo Dorr’s SQLIOSim testing...
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If you’re interested in the next release of SQL Server, the BI-focused SQL Server 2008 R2, you’ll be pleased to know that the August CTP is available for download here for MSDN and TechNet members. Here’s the skinny from the download page: SQL Server...
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After a long hiatus , Pond’s Laws of System Design (or, How to Be a Competent Professional in an Irrational World) returns. Thanks to Jimmy May for a kick-in-the-pants on this topic several months ago; I hope he’ll understand why I just had to wait until...
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Back in March of last year, we had a discussion which concluded here (and was briefly revisited here ) regarding string concatenation techniques. I’ve uncovered a new SQL Server 2008-based contender which I’d like to share. This approach is based on the...
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Courtesy of Jens Suessmeyer comes this little gem purloined from an internal discussion; cut-and-paste this into SQL Server Management Studio and see if you can answer the questions in the comments before you execute the script: -- create and populate...
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I sure wish I’d known about this sooner.. If you haven’t yet downloaded Internet Explorer 8, here’s a great opportunity to acquire some fantastic software and help out some folks less fortunate than we are in the bargain. If you download Internet Explorer...
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Hot on the heels of yesterday’s MERGE discussion comes a complementary (and far more detailed) take from Adam Machanic . It’s a nifty technical discussion, under the banner of an outstanding Dr. Strangelove pun. To see some of the true power of...
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In the wake of last month’s post on my new development efforts in SQL Server 2008, several of you have asked me to go into further detail. This post is my first effort to answer those questions; right now, we’ll focus on these two , which relate...
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With SQLRAP 2.5 out the door a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been free to turn to another project, SIPA, an internal effort to automate storage and retrieval of our group’s diverse intellectual property catalog. I’m acting as both the database architect and...
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Forty years ago this past Monday, I sat in rapt yet bleary-eyed amazement as a flickering black-and-white picture showed me that people could do anything if they aspire to a shared dream and set their minds to working together to achieve it. As...
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Actually, I’m about a month late to the party on this one.. but I’ve been busy.. Cumulative Upgrade 4 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3 is available for download here . The SQL Server Release team discusses the SP3 release here and the SP2 release...
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Now go away, or we shall taunt you a second time. - John Cleese as a French knight (picture at left); Monty Python and the Holy Grail One of the reasons I started blogging over four years ago was my conviction that the coding challenges with which my...
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Yes, it’s true.. when this post goes live, it will have been exactly four years (adjusted for a time zone differential.. how apropos) since this humble corner of the InterWebs was available for instantiation in your browser of choice. As I’ve done each...
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As my team celebrates the successful release of the latest toolset (v 2.5, for those of you keeping score at home) of the SQLRAP (SQL Risk Assessment Program) toolset, it should also be noted that Michelle Ufford has announced the winner of her SQL Rap...
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Earlier this evening, thanks to a helpful comment from eXcalibur, I was able to resolve the funky display issues which have plagued Firefox-based visitors since I started playing with CSS overrides in early May. Thanks, eXcalibur, for the sage advice...
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I'm tweaking CSS in an effort to resolve the FireFox display issues. I'll update when this work is complete. -wp...( read more ) Share this post: Read More...
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