The first Tech on Tap was so much fun that we decided to do it again! Tech on Tap v1.2 SharePoint will be held Saturday, June 9, 2012, at Stone Cellar Brewpub in Appleton, WI! What’s on tap?  The Topic Microsoft SharePoint is everywhere, in organizations of all sizes. If it is in yours, or your company is considering implementing it, you won’t want to miss this. What is SharePoint?

This is a post I wanted to write for a while but I just didn’t want my students to think I was visioning them. So if you are one of my students, no it’s not about you but I have to write this because almost every class I teach I have a student who does not meet the prerequisites, is too experienced or had other expectations of the course. When teaching at a Microsoft Learning Partner Center I usually use the standard Microsoft Official Curriculum courses so there is plenty information about them on the internet.

It was a hard decision, but I recently left what was the best job I’d ever had in my life. A lot of what made it great was the people there, but a big part of it was the way we worked as well. Since frequent retrospectives were such an important part of keeping us a well oiled machine, I figured I should have a self-retrospective on my time there.

A topic that came from my recent post, SQL Saturday Speakers – Thought when scheduling, was regarding the topic of speakers that submit abstracts to multiple SQL Saturdays that fall on the same day. Is that ok for them to do? If they did submit multiple same day events, why didn’t they pick mine over the other? Let’s get one thing out of the way before diving too far into this.

This is the third year I’ve headed south to Chicago for SQL Saturday. The first, in 2010, was my first SQL Saturday ever. The second, in 2011, was the first time I ever spoke at a SQL Saturday. Could it get better this year? It could, and it did!  Friday – SQLFriends Lunch Earlier this year, my friend Aaron Lowe (b | t) had an idea for an event – get a group of SQL people together for networking.

I answered the following question earlier this evening: Return an output parameter from SQL Server via a stored procedure and c# Here is the proc in question, take a good look at it, do you see the problem? ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[Insert_UnknownCustomer_Quote_Document] -- Add the parameters for the stored procedure here @NewDocumentFileName nvarchar(100), @NewDocumentWordCount int, @NewQuoteAmount money, @NewQuoteNumber int OUTPUT = 0 AS DECLARE @Today datetime SELECT @Today = GETDATE() BEGIN TRANSACTION BEGIN TRY BEGIN -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from interfering with SELECT statements.

This game is not on the market but the code is on github. The code was written in IntelliJ 11. The point of the game is to grab the green and red balls. The avatar moves forward and you jump by taping the screen. For now it has three levels. It has highscores. And a menu. And what’s even more important is that it runs in the emulator as you can see in the image above.

This is part six of a series about Report Builder 3.0. Report Builder 3.0 – The Introduction Report Builder 3.0 – Table or Matrix Wizard Report Builder 3.0 – Chart Wizard Report Builder 3.0 – Chart Types, Visualizations, and Properties Report Builder 3.0 – Map Wizard In this post, you’ll learn what report parts are, how to use them, and why you should use them. What are report parts?

You may have noticed that I did a few posts about Simple.Data the last couple of days. Here they are. Simple.Data and VB.Net the beginning Seeing the sql Simple.Data generates More Simple.Data with VB.Net: adding fields and tables Simple.Data and complex types: many to one Simple.Data and complex types: many to many Simple.Data and complex types: one to many Simple.Data and VB.Net The final queries And to make it easier on you guys I also made a solution with all the examples I used and some more and put them up on GitHub.

Two years ago, I went to my very first SQL Saturday, #31, Chicago 2010. It was awesome. It introduced me to the SQL Community At Large, and I met people who would become my closest friends. I also watched, among others, Brent Ozar present on his sp_blitz script and heard Brad McGehee talk about execution plans. Chicago is once again host to SQL Saturday, this time #119, on Saturday, May 19, 2012.