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I have not been able to write on my blog for quite some time. I am currently in NY for an onsite assignment and have been quite busy lately. I hope my life will get back to normal soon :-) I will be presenting at the New Jersey SQL Server User Group on 24th October 2009 on “Best practices for excep......
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Though I wanted to write a blog post with a quick summary of Community Tech-days Ahmedabad event, I could not really do that for the last several days because I was travelling. I had to leave right after the event for New York for a 4 week on-site assignment. A few of my friends have already writte......
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Community Tech-Days is coming to Ahmedabad again. The event is scheduled to be on 3rd October 2009. I look forward to see many of you in the venue on 3rd October. What is Community Tech-Days? Community Tech-Days is a technology event organized by Microsoft to help IT Professionals and developers c......
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The entire TSQL Challenges Team is very excited to welcome Brad Schulz to the TSQL Challenges Team. If you have ever visited the MSDN SQL Server forums, you must have noted Brad’s name as one of the top contributors there. He is a very active blogger and I am a great fan of his recent series of blog......
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My friend and SQL Server MVP, Jonathan Kehayias (@SQLSarg) tagged me and it is now my turn to disclose the path that I travelled to reach the SQL Server World. After I read Jonathan’s post, I tried to travel backward through my career in the IT industry. It was fun, very interesting and emotional. ......
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This report is the latest in a series of Comparative Management Cost Studies (CMCS) comparing Oracle Database with database management systems offered by other leading enterprise software vendors. This edition of the study compares Microsoft SQL Server 2008 with Oracle Database 11g. Read th......
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I am just back from Chennai, after doing a Hands-On-Lab on Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform. It was a great experience spending two days with a wonderful set of SQL Server developers and administrators from Chennai, sharing my experience in building BI solutions using Microsoft Business In......
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It was a pleasure presenting at ‘24 Hours PASS’ event this morning and I would like to thank all of you who attended the session. For those who missed the session, the recorded version will be available at PASS website soon. What is “24 Hour PASS” event? “24 Hour PASS” event (24HOP) is a 24 ho......
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We have seen a few examples that demonstrated how to delete elements and attributes from XML documents. In this lab, let us see how to delete rows from a table, based on the data in an XML document.
DECLARE @t TABLE (id INT)INSERT INTO @t(id) SELECT 1 UNION ALL SELECT 2 UNION ALL S......
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After waiting for much longer than I anticipated, I received my SQL Azure Invitation Code! One of the questions most frequently asked in the Azure forums is from anxious users like me who wanted to know when the invitations codes will be sent. Zach wrote a blog post that answers the questions of tho......
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