Welcome to the second installment of T-SQL Tuesday, the monthly SQL Server blog party! Last month’s kickoff event was a great success, and I’m really excited for this month’s theme. I hope that we see even more bloggers, with even more great posts this time around–so please spread the word!
Theme
Have you ever found yourself unable to figure out the intricacies of how some piece of code works? Ever been confused by the results you’ve gotten back from a query, only to find out that something totally unrelated was going on? Or have you ever been compelled to wile away your spare time working on a “challenge” posted by some blogger?
For this month’s T-SQL Tuesday, I’m asking participants to write a blog post on a “puzzling” topic, along the lines of some of the following ideas:
- Describe a confusing situation you encountered, and explain how you debugged the problem and what the resolution was
- Show a piece of code that doesn’t behave as most people might expect, and illustrate the reasoning behind the discrepancy
- Create a challenge for your readers to solve
As always, even given the event’s name the posts are not limited to T-SQL! Any component of, or software product related to SQL Server, is fair game. MDX, SSIS, LINQ to SQL, Entity Data Model, NHibernate, and any other software product that deals with SQL Server data can be featured in your post. Be creative!
Rules
As before, any blogger can–and should–feel free to participate in this event. In order to make the event slightly more international, I’m changing the time range from PST-based to UTC-based. So the rules are:
- Your post must go live between 00:00:00 UTC and 23:59:00 UTC on Tuesday, January 12, 2010
- Your post must link back to this one, and it’s recommended that you clearly identify the post as a T-SQL Tuesday post
- You are responsible for ensuring that a trackback or comment appears here so that I can find the posts
Follow the rules, and your post will be included in the roundup to be posted on January 13 or 14. Don’t follow the rules, and it won’t show up there. Simple as that!
Follow the event on Twitter by watching for the #TSQL2sDay hash tag.
Additional Notes
If you put in a comment and your post doesn’t follow the other rules, I will ignore your post. (Really sorry to have to add this, but a couple of people felt the need to do that last time and it violates the spirit of the event. Especially the person who tried to spoof a trackback, without any kind of link in the initiating post. If you’re not going to link back to the invitation post, please don’t bother participating, now or ever.)
Per the rules outlined last time, I’m hosting again this month, and starting next month the event will rotate around to other blogs. I’ll control the schedule even once the event leaves here, so please let me know if you’re interested in hosting–either with a comment, a Twitter DM, or an e-mail–and I’ll add you to the list. To host, you must have participated in two previous T-SQL Tuesday events, and your blog must have had at least one post a month for the prior six months.
I’m also collecting topic ideas, and would appreciate your sending them over as you think of them so that we can ensure that we have plenty of material to keep this event running for years to come.
Enjoy, and as always let me know if you have comments, questions, concerns, etc.
Sounds awesome, can’t wait!
Written mine already – hopefully the trackbacks will appear on schedule, since I’m unlikely to be online next Tuesday.
Packaged up and scheduled for Tuesday.
Missed the last one (doh!), couldn’t wait to jump into this one 🙂
I guess you jumped in a bit early? I hope you have another post for Tuesday!
My post is at http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley/archive/2010/01/12/t-sql-tuesday-t-sql-puzzle-with-having.aspx – the solution will be up later in the day.
Yeah I was so excited I hit the publish button too quick. Rather than just republish that one I went ahead and wrote up another one 🙂
A "SET FMTONLY ON" puzzle for T-SQL Tuesday #002.
TSQL Tuesday 2 Spatial Puzzles at
http://www.beginningspatial.com/t_sql_tuesday_2_spatial_puzzles
My 2 cents:
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/alexander_kuznetsov/archive/2010/01/12/t-sql-tuesday-002-patterns-that-do-not-work-as-expected.aspx
I don’t know why, but T-SQL Tuesday always inspires me to write something completely zany:
http://bradsruminations.blogspot.com/2010/01/trolls-puzzle-sql-fable.html
–Brad
The solution for my puzzle is at http://msmvps.com/blogs/robfarley/archive/2010/01/12/t-sql-tuesday-having-puzzle-answer.aspx
I look forward to reading all the Tuesday posts soon – particularly learning about Brad’s trolls!
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