Finding guidance
We all need guidance as we make our way through our careers and our lives. Some people are blessed with the right folks who can offer that by way...
2023-03-24 (first published: 2023-03-17)
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Mala Mahadevan
Stairway to ScriptDOM Level 1 - An Introduction to ScriptDOM
Get an introduction to the Stairway Series and learn about the power of the ScriptDOM library.
2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-03-09)
7,596 reads
Stairway to ScriptDOM Level 2 - Parsing, Tokens, and the Abstract Syntax Tree
In this level of the Stairway to ScriptDOM, we examine the way the tool parses scripts and creates tokens from the text.
2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-04-13)
4,787 reads
Stairway to ScriptDOM Level 3 - Finding Patterns in the Abstract Syntax Tree
Learn how you can query for patterns in the Abstract Syntax Tree to analyze your code.
2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-06-08)
2,430 reads
Stairways to ScriptDOM Level 4 – Finding Nuanced Patterns
This level of the Stairway to ScriptDOM looks at finding more complex instance of anti-patterns in your code.
2022-12-07
1,339 reads
My adventures with speaking and what changed
I am writing this blog post as contribution to #NewStarNovember and what got me re-started as a tech speaker in 2020. I haven’t done a lot of tech speaking...
2022-11-30 (first published: 2022-11-29)
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T-SQL Tuesday 153: The conference that changed everything
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by my dear friend Kevin Kline (b | t) . Kevin’s call is for us to ‘Tell us the story of how attending an IT conference or...
2022-08-26 (first published: 2022-08-09)
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T-SQL Tuesday #152 – The crazy login client
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Deborah Melkin(b|t), and she has an interesting topic. She wants us to write a rant on a scenario we encountered at a...
2022-07-25 (first published: 2022-07-12)
324 reads
T-SQL Tuesday 151 Round up: Coding Standards
I received a great collection of blog posts in response to my T-SQL Tuesday 151 – asking people to write on T-SQL Coding Standards. Rob Farley (t|b) is of...
2022-07-04 (first published: 2022-06-17)
648 reads
T-SQL Tuesday 151 Invite: T-SQL Coding Standards
T-SQL Tuesday is the blog party started by Adam Machanic (b|t) over a decade ago and is now maintained by Steve Jones (b|t) on tsqltuesday.com. On the first Tuesday of...
2022-06-06
43 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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