Wayne Sheffield

My blog about SQL Server

Browsing Posts published in March, 2012

On Saturday, April 14, 2012, I’ll be presenting “Table Vars and Temp Tables – What you NEED to know!” at SQL Saturday #111 in Alpharetta, GA (just north of Atlanta). Forget the tax man… come out and join me in this code filled session, where we’ll discover the differences and similarities of Temporary Tables and […]

SQL Server 2012 introduces several new date/time functions that allow you to build a date/time from the individual parts of a date/time value. As I was experimenting with them, I was thinking that this is pretty neat, and bound to be very useful. And then I started wondering how well it performed. Before I had […]

This month, Argenis Fernandez (blog, @DBArgenis) is hosting our monthly T-SQL Tuesday, and he wants to know: Are you specialized? On something? Or anything at all? Has that been a good or a bad thing? Why? I do specialize, in SQL Server, in development and administration areas. Why I decided to specialize My decision to […]