belle's sql musings

Re-Post: SQL Server and PowerShell WebCasts

belle — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:04:46 +0000

I created a 2 part webcast on SQL Server and PowerShell last November/December, and I just wanted to re-post it in my site. SQL Server PowerShell: Part I Posted on November 25, 2009 Overview: This video is part 1 of a 2 part video series that goes through PowerShell basics with demonstrations on how to use [...]

Refactor This: Runaway T-SQL to Print YYMMDD

belle — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:04:12 +0000

Recently trying to debug some really cryptic T-SQL scripts. Guess what this is trying to do? -- DECLARE @dt varchar(6) SET @dt = RIGHT(CONVERT(varchar(4), YEAR(getdate())),2) + REPLICATE('0', 2 - LEN(CONVERT(varchar(2), MONTH(getdate())))) + CONVERT(varchar(2), MONTH(getdate())) + REPLICATE('0', 2 - LEN(CONVERT(varchar(2), DAY(getdate())))) + CONVERT(varchar(2), DAY(getdate())) -- Answer: It’s trying to print the current date in YYMMDD format. Uhm, there’s a much better way to [...]

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Becoming a DBA – the Right and Not-So-Right Reasons

belle — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:34:37 +0000

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”. – Confucius It’s amazing how many, and how consistently, I get “reluctant would-be DBAs” in my class. I always do a quick survey or poll when the course starts where I ask the students why they’re taking [...]

I’ve been tagged – Three Things That Got Me Here

belle — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:06:23 +0000

Glenn Alan Berry (@GlennAlanBerry) tagged me, so here goes my version of “3 things that got me here” … I wanted a job that didn’t involve hiking up the mountains in winter … I took Geology in University (while working almost full time closing shifts at a local McDonald’s), spent a lot of years trying to get [...]

Becoming a DBA – the Right and Not-So-Right Reasons ...

SQLPASS – Sessions, “tweeps”, swags, inspirations and lessons learned – looking forward to SQLPASS2010

belle — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:57:55 +0000

This is my SQLPASS : Sessions Day 0 – Pre-Conference Building a Microsoft Data Warehousing Platform by Brian Knight – excellent introduction to data cleansing, warehousing, and even data mining! Day 1 Keynote Spotlight: SSRS in the Enterprise – How to Survive with a Smile (Wayne Snyder) To Partition or Not To Partition – The Questions … and the answers [...]

SQLPASS Pre-Conference Lessons Learned – Building a Microsoft Data Warehousing Platform (Brian Knight)

belle — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:12:29 +0000

I just finished the SQLPASS pre-conference from Brian Knight – Building a Microsoft Data Warehousing Platform, and I’m so pumped to do more BI! Reporting, Data Warehousing, Data Mining – all fun stuff. In a gist, this is what we learned today (and it’s a lot of acronyms): - SSIS, ETL - SSAS - Cubes, Data Warehouse - Data Mining - [...]

Resizing your VMWare Disk in 12 Steps

belle — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:55:24 +0000

Every now and then I need to resize my VMWare Server disks. The is the easiest and least troublesome way, from my experience, is to use GParted Live (Gnome Partition Editor) Prep Work: 1. Download GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) Live (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-stable/). It is an iso file that we will mount to our vm 2. Locate where your vmware-vdiskmanager.exe is. [...]

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Are Vendor Certifications Still Valuable?

belle — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:56:43 +0000

Are they? I personally find them still valuable. Poured my thoughts into our company blog : Black Ninja Software – Are Vendor Certifications Still Valuable? How about you? What’s your take on it? Related posts:Looking for another Ninja (that is Ninja talk for looking for a good developer) ...BlackNinja Posts: Invoking Javascript and Impersonating Users in SharePoint ...DevTeach/SQLTeach in [...]