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SQLBlogCasts is a free service to those folk who want SQL Server related blogs. It's there to support the online community especially in but not limited to the UK.

The site is a partner of the UK SQL Server User Group a group of professionals with an interest in and using Microsoft SQLServer.

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  • Learning SQL Server

    At the last Edinburgh User group meeting we had a great talk from Alistair about Learning SQL Server. Everyone is different when it comes to learning. In the distant past there was very few learning opportunities other than classroom based courses. Even the number of books on technical subjects were limited. Nowadays the number of books available are...
    Posted to Martin Bell UK SQL Server MVP (Weblog) by MartinBell on 03-12-2010

  • Coding standards

    This post will be about coding standards. There are countless articles and blog posts related to this topic, so I know this post will not be too revealing. Yet I would like to mention a few things I came across during my work with the T-SQL code. Naming convention - there are many of them obviously. Too bad if all of them are used in the same database...
    Posted to Piotr Rodak (Weblog) by Piotr Rodak on 03-11-2010

  • SSIS - XML Source Script

    The XML Source in SSIS is great if you have a 1 to 1 mapping between entity and table. You can do more complex mapping but it becomes very messy and won't perform. What other options do you have? The challenge with XML processing is to not need a huge amount of memory. I remember using the early versions of Biztalk with loaded the whole document...
    Posted to Simon Sabin UK SQL Consultant's Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on 03-11-2010

  • SQL 2008 R2 UK Launch

    Don't forget to register for the SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch event in London on the 15th April. http://www.microsoft.com/uk/techdays/itprodaythursday.aspx Why not make a long weekend of it and do the launch and SQLBits ( www.sqlbits.com ) followed by a few days sightseeing in London. We will be opening registration for SQLBits next week but in the...
    Posted to Simon Sabin UK SQL Consultant's Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on 03-11-2010

  • PASS Summit Location follow up - result analysis

    I've had a chance to look at the results directly and it is clear that there is a tough choice. On the one hand people are saying that they prefer to have PASS put their money into chapters and things like 24hrs of PASS rather than an event on the east coast. Whilst at the same time almost 50% more people said they would be more likely to attend...
    Posted to Simon Sabin UK SQL Consultant's Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on 03-10-2010
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