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My #ActiveAugust goals have hit a snag. I'm injured. I've learned the hard way that I need to be careful, and I'll likely be sidelined for a few days healing. Durnit! AndysActiveAugust Metric: 10 for 11, or 0.91. :{<...
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Sundays are the nemesis of my #ActiveAugust goals. It's a busy day with church and usually some sort of family activites thereafter. Last Sunday, 2 Aug, was the only day thus far I hadn't exercised. So this Sunday I was more than a little concerned. Christy...
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It's been a couple days since I last blogged . In between a couple long days at work, installing Windows 7 on the Red XPS laptop, and Riley's birthday cookout; I managed to exercise both days. My #ActiveAugust goals revolve around making exercise a habit....
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Today was also close. After staying up too late last night due to work (and being old - old people don't need sleep), my #ActiveAugust aspirations were nearly dashed by sleeping in until after 6:00 AM again for the second day in a row. In addition, it...
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Today was close. After being inspired by Tim Benninghoff 's post about Dynamic SQL (and writing one of my own), I stayed up too late last night. The alarm is set for 5:30 AM to give me enough time to get up and stirring before heading to the gym at 6:00....
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I was just reading Tim Benninghoff's latest post: Dynamic SQL is my administration buddy and it got me thinking (Tim's posts often get me thinking) about how much I use dynamic SQL each day. Just today I needed to create a test query to count the rows...
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I did something today I haven't done in weeks - I made it to the gym for the second day in a row, Maybe it's all psychosomatic (or just plain psycho), but I felt better today. I did 1.5 miles on the treadmill - enough to get a minimum good cardio workout...
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In the age of SQL injection attacks, the dangers of dynamic SQL are pretty well documented. But, as with most things, there's a time and a place for them. I recently indulged in a trip down memory lane, reviewing the scripts in my 'toolbox' that I use...
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Andy's 2 for 3 so far this #ActiveAugust......
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1 Aug 2009: Today's cardio was mowing. About half of the three acres we (and the mortgage company) own is covered with grass - the kind that insists on growing. It's been a couple weeks since I gave it all a good mow. My neighbors were shaming me with...
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I'm going to participate in #ActiveAugust for a couple reasons: A bunch of my Twitter friends are doing it. I really need to be more active. My plans are to go cardio each day. For me, doing something that gets my heart rate into workout range every day...
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Introduction This is the first post in a series called WeatherData. In this series I am going to demonstrate principles of test-driven database development (TD3). Build the Solution Did you know you can use SSMS to build a database project? You can. I'm...
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The internet abounds with documentation and blog posts about logon triggers, introduced to SQL Server 2005 in service pack 2. Recently I had the opportunity to work with them developing an imperfect solution to provide a temporary bandage for a vendor's...
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Introduction (Found via Brett Petersel , Twitter ) So, EA is publicizing a new game called Dante's Inferno, and they chose a contest at Comic-Con to promote it: Sin to Win . There's a decent synopsis here . Take a picture with a "booth babe" at Comic-Con,...
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" I suppose you could say that everyone has an El Guapo ." Lucky Day, The Three Amigos As the title of my blog post says, I've got an El Guapo, a nemesis, an antagonist. It's a mental monkey trap. I cannot seem to figure out how the 'Limit size of job...
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PASS, the Professional Association of SQL Server, is currently holding a contest , looking for people to blog or email them about the best thing they learned at a PASS Summit they've attended. Networking: it's not just for sleezy marketing types. Hmmm....
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I received an 'advertisement' in my inbox today from one of my email subscriptions. This is what is exactly what is wrong with our industry! We have marketing ads like this that imply that more lines of code faster equates to a better product! CIO's and...
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Recently I was tagged by Jeremiah Peschka with a question that goes a little something like this: "So You’re On A Deserted Island With WiFi and you’re still on the clock at work. Okay, so not a very good situational exercise here, but let’s roll with...
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Honestly, I was all set to blog more frequently, and then disaster struck. My home desktop, the one on which I do most of my hobbies and tech stuff after work, had died a hard death thanks to the failure of my video card. I had no on-board video to save...
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I constantly hear (or read about) people bashing Microsoft and make a fuss that they need to unseal their classes in the core framework. The reason usually being for testing because all other reasons are usually academic examples that nobody in their...
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Sometimes Books Online really ruffles my feathers, and this is one of those times. We have a separate security department that handles our IT security. They'd like to have their accounts be able to just administer the security on our SQL Server boxes,...
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When I wrote my previous blog post about blogging, I remembered how much of a sucker for the concept of recursion I'd become, even though it still bewilders me, after I'd read Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter . I'd...
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Introduction There's been lots of speculation about Twitter and what it means to the modern technologist. I've found some of it pretty insightful and some of it misinformed. I use Twitter . A bunch. Not as much as some , but more than average . I like...
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If you're fortunate enough to have access to an MSDN Subscription, you can download various components of VS 2010 Beta 1 now. If you don't have access to an MSDN Subscription, don't despair - you only have to wait until Wednesday. The beta includes Team...
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Here I am, about 5 months into blogging in 2009, and I find myself unsatisfied with the frequency with which I update this blog. Sure, there is some content with which I am well pleased, but I just can't seem to understand why I can barely reach the 1...
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