 Wednesday, June 3, 2009
What is SQLSaturday?
It's a free one day learning event for SQL Server professionals, loosely patterned on the well known Code Camp model, organized by the Portland SQL Server Users Group (pdxSSug).
Date and Location:
SQL Saturday Portland will be held June 6, 2009 at Mt. Hood Community College, 26000 S.E. Stark St., Gresham, Oregon 97030. The event follows the standard conference model. There are 12 sessions across 2 tracks. Most of the sessions will run 60 minutes. Check in will open at 8:00 am and sessions begin at 9:00 am. Lunch will be provided on site, and the day will close out around 5:00 pm. The after event will be held at McMenamins Edgefield, 2126 S.W. Halsey St., Troutdale, OR 97060 beginning right after the last session. Registration is at http://www.sqlsaturday.com
When will the schedule of sessions be posted?
The call for speakers is closed, and the schedule is finalized.
Can I sponsor this event?
More sponsors are needed to help subsidize the incidental costs of running the event and this is a great event to meet SQL Server professionals or to just give back to the community. If you are interested or want more information, please visit the sponsor page. You can view all of the great sponsors there and it is hoped that most of them will be at the event.
What else can you tell me about the event?
This event is free to anyone that wishes to attend. Check in for the event opens at 8 am.
Be sure to register at http://www.sqlsaturday.com
Friday, June 13, 2008
The Code Trip is near its end at the MVP summit. Join us Thursday at the Corillian Cafe to cheer the team on through the final leg of their journey.
| WHAT: |
June PADNUG SQL SIG Meeting |
| WHEN: |
Tuesday 06/17/2008
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~8:30 p.m. After Words at Cornelius Pass Roadhouse? |
| WHERE: |
Corillian Cafe, now part of CheckFree, now a part of FiServ
3400 NW John Olsen Place
Hillsboro, OR 97124 |
| WHO: |
William R. Vaughn
Bill retired from Microsoft (in 2000) after 14 years to focus on mentoring, speaking, and writing. His specialty is data access application design especially when connecting to SQL Server. Bill has worked in the computer industry since 1972. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Mary Hardin-Baylor and a Master's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Texas. He's also been awarded an Honorary PhD. from the University of Advancing Computer Technology in Tempe Arizona. Bill spent his early years working in the mainframe data processing industry and transitioned to the personal computer side in the late 70s. Along the way, he worked for the Texas DPS Narcotics Service, EDS (where he was recruited by and worked for Ross Perot), at Mostek/United Technologies, Challenge Systems, Digital Research, and CPT Corporation. After having surfed the PC industry for many years, he began his Microsoft years in 1986 working for the Windows developer liaison team at Microsoft in 1986. For the next 14 years, he worked in various divisions at Microsoft including Microsoft University, the Visual Basic documentation and Visual Studio marketing and Internal Technical Education teams before retiring in 2000 to form his own company, Beta V Corporation.
Bill has written seven editions of the popular Hitchhiker's Guide (the 4th, 5th and 6th published by Microsoft Press) and books for APress, including the bestseller ADO and ADO.NET Examples and Best Practices. Peter Blackburn and Bill also coauthored the Hitchhiker's Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services (Addison- Wesley). His latest work is Hitchhiker's Guide to SQL Server Everywhere-his first e-Book. He writes lead articles for SQL Server Magazine where he is a contributing editor, MSDN, and others. Bill also writes a bi-weekly editorial for Processor.COM magazine. Bill is a top-rated speaker at conferences worldwide, including keynotes and sessions at TechEd, DevWeek, Dev Connections, SQL Connections, VBUG, and many others - where his wit and no-holds-barred technical insights win him rave reviews. Bill is a Microsoft MVP. |
| TOPIC: |
Visual Studio Reporting
The inside scoop on how to get the most out of the new ReportViewer control and how it's evolved in Visual Studio 2008. This discusses how to leverage your Reporting Services skills and RDL reports to create application-based reports and how to manage the myriad of issues that come up when trying to emulate Reporting Services functionality like parameters, connections, pick-list population and much more. This session previews the SQL Server Reporting Services technology coming with SQL Server 2008. |
While you are at it, consider visiting our Premium Sponsors that make these meetings possible:
Aivea - http://www.aivea.com/
Ascentium - http://www.ascentium.com/
Microsoft - http://www.microsoft.com/
O'Reilly - http://www.oreilly.com/
Robert Half Technology - http://www.roberthalftechnology.com/
SubMain and CodeIt.Right - http://submain.com/codeit.right
JetBrains - http://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Thursday, August 24, 2006
This is just one of those little reminders to self. Self, you never seem to remember how to assign the return value from a stored procedure to a variable in SQL. I try various forms and always seem to miss the right one. So, in an effort to mark it for my future use, I place it here in the blog.
One does NOT accomplish it through any of these methods:
DECLARE @ReturnedValue INT
SET @ReturnedValue = StoredProcedure @Param1, @Param2
IF( @ReturnedValue = @Something )
BEGIN
--Do This Stuff
END
DECLARE @ReturnedValue INT
SET @ReturnedValue = StoredProcedure ( @Param1, @Param2 )
IF( @ReturnedValue = @Something )
BEGIN
--Do This Stuff
END
DECLARE @ReturnedValue INT
SET @ReturnedValue = EXEC StoredProcedure @Param1, @Param2
IF( @ReturnedValue = @Something )
BEGIN
--Do This Stuff
END
DECLARE @ReturnedValue INT
SET @ReturnedValue = EXEC StoredProcedure ( @Param1, @Param2 )
IF( @ReturnedValue = @Something )
BEGIN
--Do This Stuff
END
One does by this method:
DECLARE @ReturnedValue INT
EXEC @ReturnedValue = StoredProcedure @Param1, @Param2
IF( @ReturnedValue = @Something )
BEGIN
--Do This Stuff
END
I just have to remember the order. I suppose it makes sense when I see it, but I forget when it's time to type it. It's just too easy to get mixed up with Function format.
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
This is a question asked of Google that led to my blog today. Of course, I haven't blogged on such a thing, but I figure what the heck? Let's do it!
For the next person that searches for such an item, the opposite of SELECT TOP is also SELECT TOP. Huh? You simply change the ORDER BY clause to be descending. For example, if you have a query such as:
SELECT TOP 10 FirstName, LastName, BirthDate
FROM Persons
ORDER BY LastName, FirstName
then the opposite would be:
SELECT TOP 10 FirstName, LastName, BirthDate
FROM Persons
ORDER BY LastName DESC, FirstName DESC
Simple, huh?
You may be asking, "What if I don't care about the order?" Then I have to say that you don't really care about TOP versus BOTTOM, either as you are going to get a random (as far as we know) set of rows in either case.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
All I can say is: Wow! Nick, you really did a great job!
For those that missed it, Nick effectively showed how the .NET Framework already supports all that is neccesary to make LINQ possible by implementing the SELECTion bit in his own namespace. Then, dazzled by switching to the packaged namespace without changing the code.
If you would like to grab the presentation and/or code examples, <<click here>>. You too will be able to write code like this one day:
1 partial class Program {
2 static void DemoCode() {
3 DataContext dc = new DataContext(
4 "server=(local);database=Northwind;Integrated Security=true");
5
6 Table<Customer> customers = dc.GetTable<Customer>();
7
8 var results = from customer in customers
9 where customer.CustomerID.StartsWith("A")
10 select customer;
11
12 Show(results, "Results from DLinq Query");
13 }
14 }
15
16 [Table(Name="Customers")]
17 public class Customer {
18 [Column(Id=true)]
19 public string CustomerID;
20
21 [Column]
22 public string CompanyName;
23 }
Monday, May 30, 2005
Some time ago, I was asked to devlop some reports for a little tracking application I'd written for my employer. In my past life, I did a lot of this work (heck, it was my job!) and feel pretty comfortable using Excel to twist my numbers around in all sorts of Pivot-y ways.
What I hadn't done is to create pivots that were conditional and customized. I suppose, with further exploration, I'd find reasonable ways to accomodate my needs from within Excel, but I had a moment's epiphany - why not just build the proper pivot query in SQL to begin with?
I know I had seen it done, but never took the time to find out details. So, with this new thought, I did a bit of exploring - Duh! That's easy! Simply count conditionally for each column.
So, for posterity's sake - and my own future needs - here follows the basic structure for doing a pivot table with a SQL query (Counts number of items for a given number of weeks prior to current):
SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT
'Opened On Week' AS LineType,
'All Modules' AS AppModule,
COUNT( CASE WeeksBackOpened WHEN 4 THEN IssueId ELSE NULL END )
AS "4 Weeks Ago",
COUNT( CASE WeeksBackOpened WHEN 3 THEN IssueId ELSE NULL END )
AS "3 Weeks Ago",
COUNT( CASE WeeksBackOpened WHEN 2 THEN IssueId ELSE NULL END )
AS "2 Weeks Ago",
COUNT( CASE WeeksBackOpened WHEN 1 THEN IssueId ELSE NULL END )
AS "Last Week",
COUNT( CASE WeeksBackOpened WHEN 0 THEN IssueId ELSE NULL END )
AS "This Week"
FROM PivotTableView
UNION
SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT
'Opened On Week' AS LineType,
Application + ': ' + ModuleName AS AppModule,
COUNT( CASE WeeksBackOpened WHEN 4 THEN IssueId ELSE NULL END )
AS "4 Weeks Ago",
COUNT( CASE WeeksBackOpened WHEN 3 THEN IssueId ELSE NULL END )
AS "3 Weeks Ago",
COUNT( CASE WeeksBackOpened WHEN 2 THEN IssueId ELSE NULL END )
AS "2 Weeks Ago",
COUNT( CASE WeeksBackOpened WHEN 1 THEN IssueId ELSE NULL END )
AS "Last Week",
COUNT( CASE WeeksBackOpened WHEN 0 THEN IssueId ELSE NULL END )
AS "This Week"
FROM PivotTableView
GROUP BY Application, ModuleName
ORDER BY AppModule, LineType
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