Category: 70-461 Training

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The SQL Training was a lot of fun this week we covered Top, Ranking, NTILE, and Analytic functions in preparation for the Microsoft 70-461 exam. Next week Aaron Buma and I will be presenting Set Operators, Derived Tables and CTEs. The live session will be with Google On Air Broadcasts Thursday Feb 12th at 9:00am (pacific). This is a FREE SQL Training …

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This weeks training as part of the Free SQL Training for the 70-461 certification course is now available on YouTube. This week we covered Aggregating Data and Aggregation strategies.  For more information on sessions, take a look at the Free SQL Training course that we have outlined. TSQL Aggregation video The first half is presented by Aaron Buma and the second …

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SQL Server 2012 adds a new function called DateFromParts.  This new function simplifies the creating of a DATE type in TSQL over the older ways of doing it. The information here has been extracted from my SQL Saturday presentation on Whats New in TSQL 2012. Pre-SQL 2012 First lets take a look at how you would do the equivalent to DateFromParts before SQL …

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