Randquist Rants » microsoft http://randquist.us/blog Random ramblings of a Software Engineer and Entrepreneur. Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:52:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers… http://randquist.us/blog/2007/04/05/developers-developers-developers-developers/ http://randquist.us/blog/2007/04/05/developers-developers-developers-developers/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2007 03:23:18 +0000 CobyR http://www.randquist.us/blog/?p=45 A rather amusing video with Steve Ballmer, President of Microsoft, showing a bit of emphasis on developers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE

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Came accross sp_findtext when searching for an issue today. I was doing maintenance on an app I hadn’t looked at in over 18 months.

sp_findtext

]]> http://randquist.us/blog/2007/01/17/sp_findtext/feed/ 0 sp_who, sp_who2, and sp_who_3 http://randquist.us/blog/2006/09/17/sp_who-sp_who2-and-sp_who3/ http://randquist.us/blog/2006/09/17/sp_who-sp_who2-and-sp_who3/#comments Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:36:45 +0000 CobyR http://www.randquist.us/blog/?p=34 I have used sp_who and sp_who2 frequently as a DBA on Microsoft SQL servers. I came across sp_who3 a year or so ago, and have used it since. It’s a handy sproc to have when working on MS SQL 2000.

sp_who_3 : an enhanced and efficient version of sp_who

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