SQL Saturday #59 - New York City
A free day of training in New York City just before Thanksgiving. Come see Steve Jones and Grant Fritchey, along with a number of other great speakers.
2010-11-16 (first published: 2010-11-04)
2,471 reads
Articles
Learning Sharepoint, SSIS and SSAS
Steve Jones outlines some ways that you might look to get additional training that can help move your career along.
2010-11-15
3,704 reads
Setting up Transactional Replication in SQL Server 2008 R2
Transactional Replication is used when DML or DDL schema changes performed on an object of a database on one server needs to be reflected on the database residing on another server. This article provides a step by step guide to setting up transactional replication on SQL Server 2008 R2.
2010-11-15
2,436 reads
An Example of Test-Driven Development, Part 3
Andy Leonard continues on with his series on TDD. This time he performs some refactoring on his solution.
2010-11-12 (first published: 2009-07-13)
10,638 reads
SQL Server R2 in Luxembourg
On Nov 16, 2008, the Luxembourg SQL Server User Group will hold a SQL Server 2008 R2 event in conjunction with Microsoft.
2010-11-12
367 reads
Getting Started with Extended Events in SQL Server 2008
In a previous tip, we did an overview of Extended Events and the different components that make up Extended Events. Now that you know what Extended Events offers, how do you use it to help troubleshoot performance issues? In this tip we take a step by step look at how to implement and use Extended Events.
2010-11-12
2,644 reads
Setting SQL Server Default Locations
How to set the default locations for backups, data files, and log files in SQL Server.
2010-11-11
8,540 reads
November 2010 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries
Apparently, when I posted this a few days ago, the Windows Live Writer plug-in that I used mangled the T-SQL...
2010-11-11
2,035 reads
SQL Saturday #61 - DC
A free day of training in Reston, VA, just outside Washington DC. Come join Andy Leonard, Allen White and others for some SQL Server learning.
2010-11-11
1,284 reads
SQL Server Statistics: Problems and Solutions
SQL Server Statistics assist the query optimiser to calculate the best way of running the query. Holger describes every common way that things can go wrong with statistics, and how to put matters right.
2010-11-11
3,714 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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