Post a Twitter Status Update using T-SQL
Learn how to post a Twitter status update with 5 lines of T-SQL using a third party library.
2012-02-02
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Pulling real-time data from Twitter using StreamInsight
An example of building a StreamInsight input adapter for retrieving Twitter data in real-time.
2019-03-26 (first published: 2010-09-29)
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#SQLPASS on Twitter
With the PASS Summit taking place last week in Seattle, Steve Jones found that there was a tremendous amount of SQL Server news and information on Twitter. It's a medium that is becoming useful for SQL DBAs.
2009-11-09
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Using Twitter and PowerShell to Find Technical Information and Join a Community
Using PowerShell and a little bit of .NET Framework and XML knowledge, it is possible to delve a little deeper into the information which is potentially available to you from Twitter. Jonathan explains about Twitter and shows how to use Powershell to access twitter automatically.
2009-08-14
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Social Networking in the SQL Server Community
Like many SQL Server (and other technology) people, I utilize several social networking vehicles to stay in touch with others in the SQL community. Some of those who don’t use Facebook and Twitter (among others) have expressed skepticism of the real value of social networking. Does it work? Does it provide any value beyond entertainment? Can it actually help your career? I believe the answer to all of these queries is Yes.
2009-07-24
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What is Twitter?
I saw an interesting blog post from Andy Leonard ( @AndyLeonard ) recently on what he thought Twitter was. I'd started my own post here, with some thoughts, and had to go back and rewrite things (Thanks, Andy!). He got me thinking, and I agree, it's...
2009-05-26
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RE: How to see all full text index
ubaert, you can list the full text indexed columns by using: sp_help_fulltext_columns Also, you can list the catalogs by using: sp_help_fulltext_catalogs There are other sprocs in the master database that may help. Look these two up in BOL for more info. -Dan B
2003-11-17
RE: Arithmetic overflow
From SQl Books on Line: ---- int, bigint, smallint, and tinyint Exact number data types that use integer data. bigint Integer (whole number) data from -2^63 (-9,223,372,036,854,775,808) through 2^63-1 (9,223,372,036,854,775,807). Storage size is 8 bytes. int Integer (whole number) data from -2^31 (-2,147,483,648) through 2^31 - 1 (2,147,483,647). Storage size is 4 bytes. The SQL-92 […]
2003-08-29
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RE: Proper Shutdown of SQL Servers in a Cluster
quote: Can you share an example of that script and does it run from sql server agent? I have a shutdown script where I shutdown one server about 30 seconds after the second just for the case you've indicated. This ensures the nodes go down gracefully and you don't have the cluster service trying to […]
2003-07-16
RE: Table recreation via script
Thanks for the replies. I'll look into the solutions mentioned. I thought of another one myself. I could create an XML file and do a bulkupload via a VBS script.
2003-06-30
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