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K-MUG is organizing Tech-ED Trivandrum on 27th June 2009. Along with Tech-ED, they are also launching an official PASS Chapter in Trivandrum. You can find the agenda of the event here. I will be at Tech-ED and look forward to meet many of you there. My presentation is about ‘Logical Query Execution......
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Tech-ED Ahmedabad 2009 was a very successful event. See the following links for the details of the event and photographs: Jacobs Blog: http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/jacob/archive/2009/06/23/tech-ed-ahmedabad-2009-event-summary.aspx Pinal’s Blog: http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/06/22/sqlautho......
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For those of you who are eager to know what happened with Tech-Ed event in Ahmedabad, here is a quick summary. Pinal has written a very detailed version in his blog site. Tech-ED Ahmedabad was a great event and was very successful from all the aspects. Over 200 people turned in from various parts o......
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PASS Program committee has announced Pre/Post Conference Sessions for PASS Summit 2009. You can find the details of the sessions here: PASS Summit 2009 Agenda Agenda at a glance Pre/Post Conference Sessions Spotlight Sessions Program Sessions ......
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I heard this question a number of times in the SQL Server forums. I used to suggest people to create DDL triggers (from SQL Server 2005 onwards) to audit schema changes. However, this can capture only changes applied after the DDL trigger is configured. The next best option was to buy a third party ......
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My session abstract on “XML Schema Collections” is approved by the PASS Summit Program Committee and I will be getting the ‘great’ opportunity to speak at PASS Summit 2009, Seattle, Washington, during the first week of November this year. The title of my presentation is “SQL Server 2008 ......
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Pinal Dave, TOP SQL Server blogger and Microsoft SQL Server MVP joined “Solid Quality Mentors, India”. Solid Quality Mentors announced the news in a press release this morning. http://www.pr.com/press-release/158734 Congratulations Pinal!......
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During Tech-ED India 2009, I had an opportunity to meet SQL Server Legend Vinod Kumar and he agreed to give an interview. Vinod Kumar is my favorite SQL Server speaker and mentor. I take speaking lessons from him, every time I meet him. Thank you Vinod for your continuous support and encouragemen......
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We getting a lot of interesting feedback on 'TSQL Challenges' and the story of French MVP Aurelien is very interesting. http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/tc/archive/2009/06/14/aurelien-and-matthieu-have-fun-with-tsql-challenges.aspx The whole idea of 'TSQL Challenges' is to inspire people to think ......
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We have seen a number of string manipulation examples using XML. Here is yet another example that uses FOR XML to convert a VARBINARY value to VARCHAR. Some one asked me this question in one of the forums. The story is like this. The OP did a data migration project and the original data from the O......
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