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In the past few years, I have received emails/messages from several dozens people asking pointers/directions to build their career as a DBA. Most of those people were application developers with basic knowledge of SQL Server and wanted to enhance their ...

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Most technology blog posts need to show some sort of code samples to demonstrate/explain something, but we often see code that is correct, but not really handy for a user to try it. I thought of outlining a few things that I learned over period of time....

@Sam, What we use at beyondrelational.com is a JS formatter called syntaxhightter. To make use of it, a blogger can write sample code as follows

<pre class="brush: sql">
    SELECT column
    FROM Sometable   
</pre>

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Correct formatting of code samples is really important in a blog post...

@Sam, I have added you as a Mentor. You should be able to create posts by clicking on the **posts** link on the top navigation bar and then selecting 'new post' option....

Thanks Sam. I think it will be great if you can write a short post demonstrating how to use the snipping tool for those bloggers who have not yet tried it. Just a thought......

This post high lights some point that may be helpful when posting images/screen shots on a blog post....

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