The speaker lineup for PASS SUMMIT 2015 was announced today and my Advanced Common Table Expressions session was accepted.   Here is the abstract: You might have been introduced to Common Table Expressions (CTEs) and understand the WITH syntax, but want to know more. Learn how recursive queries work with CTEs and how to display hierarchical data. Did you know …

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After being inspired by reading about Brent Ozar’s Epic Life Quest, I created my own Epic Life Quest list, and for level 1 one of my goals was to run in a 5K race. I completed that goal today, I finished a 5k race, I wasn’t fast, but I did complete it. My time was  37 minutes and 57 seconds. …

Epic Life Quest Level 1 – partially completed today. Read more »