SQL Saturday 408 – Event Wrap Up

I’m back in Austin from SQL Saturday 408 in Houston, TX and back at work. The event was a great success and I liked everything from top to bottom. You can get the slides from all the sessions, including mine at the SQL Saturday 408 event page.
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Rudy Rodarte is a SQL Server Database professional based in Austin, TX. Over his career, Rudy has worked with SSRS, SSIS, performance tuning troubleshooting. When away from Keyboard, Rudy goes to Spurs and Baylor Bear sporting events.

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Remote Desktop won’t go back to Full Screen Part 2


Earlier this year, I wrote about Remote Desktop not returning to fullscreen after minimization in Windows 7. The solution is to use Control-Alt-Break to bring the remote desktop window to full screen. And life was grand. I noticed some comments that people had Laptops where their keyboard did not have a Break key.
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Rudy Rodarte is a SQL Server Database professional based in Austin, TX. Over his career, Rudy has worked with SSRS, SSIS, performance tuning troubleshooting. When away from Keyboard, Rudy goes to Spurs and Baylor Bear sporting events.

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Using datediff to display results as HH:MM:SS

DateDiff, y u no Pretty?

Sometimes you just need hh:mm:ss

I ran into a case when I needed to display some results in the HH:MM:SS format. We all know and love DATEDIFF, which gives you whole number results. Using DATEDIFF, I was getting results like this:

--	Declare some variables for the requested timeframe
DECLARE	@START_DATE	DATETIME
DECLARE	@END_DATE	DATETIME--	Set the timeframe variables
SET		@START_DATE = '2011-01-01 16:00:00'
SET		@END_DATE =   '2011-01-01 22:47:22'
SELECT DATEDIFF(second,@Start_date, @END_DATE) AS Segundos
Segundos
24442
 
(1 row(s) affected)

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Rudy Rodarte is a SQL Server Database professional based in Austin, TX. Over his career, Rudy has worked with SSRS, SSIS, performance tuning troubleshooting. When away from Keyboard, Rudy goes to Spurs and Baylor Bear sporting events.

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