August 2011 - Posts

• Sometimes it’s the little things...

  The easiest way to convince someone to use SSMS 2008 over SSMS 2005 was to right-click on a results grid. They’d see “Copy with Headers” in the context menu and be sold immediately. I’d happily show them that they could configure this option in SSMS 2005, Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2011 11:10 PM by Rob Farley | 7 Comments Filed under: sql, sql improvements, denali

• Denali’s Management Studio for CTP3 playing nice with others (almost)

  Until recently, I’d only done stuff with Denali on a dedicated box. But this weekend, I took the plunge and installed SSMS on a machine that has older versions of SQL Server installed on it. You can download Denali from this link . I’ve only installed Read More... Posted Monday, August 29, 2011 6:40 PM by Rob Farley | 0 Comments Filed under: sql, sql improvements, denali

• T-SQL thoughts about the 95th percentile

  95% of statisticians may be offended at this post. Unfortunately, I’m going to be showing my ignorance about statistics here, I’m sure. I may even use Wikipedia to back up my arguments, which will offend many more of you. Someone (ok, it was Wes Brown Read More... Posted Tuesday, August 23, 2011 5:37 PM by Rob Farley | 8 Comments Filed under: sql

• World Series of PASS

  I’m sure Americans understand the joke that is the “World Series” of baseball. Everyone else rolls their eyes and knows that this ‘world’ means North America. Some people feel similar with PASS , unfortunately. The North American Conference and the Global Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:31 PM by Rob Farley | 9 Comments Filed under: community, sqlpass

• How failure can be useful

  First, an apology. I haven’t blogged for the last couple of months, except for T-SQL Tuesday events . I make myself blog for these, for two reasons. One is the simple fact that I like the concept – I like the idea of getting a blogging assignment, and Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 10, 2011 2:32 PM by Rob Farley | 2 Comments Filed under: t-sql tuesday, professional development