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Update #3:
Another reformat, thanks to andreas for giving me the heads up. The pre tags aren't behaving across browsers so...
2010-12-21
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Relational Types.
As I try to drag my team (sometimes with resistance, sometimes with pleasure) into the world of relational principles, I...
2010-12-15
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SQL Standards
Three posts, three critical rants. It's time to be constructive.
I was given the responsibility to decide on the SQL development...
2010-12-12
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SSIS: great idea, but buggy as heck.
Oh SSIS, how I love and hate you.
As DBA at my company, I don't actually develop much in SSIS. But...
2010-12-11
1,778 reads
The best laid plans....
I had big plans for this blog, a place to rant, a place to put cool things I discovered, a...
2010-09-17
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Separation of interface from implementation
One of the supposed advantages of the EF is that it abstracts you from
your database implementation. This is considered to...
2010-07-11
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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
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I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
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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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