SQLskills Immersion Event on Internals and Performance – Day 1
Sonny Bryans Smokehouse Bbq would make an interesting classroom
Today was the first day of my first SQLskills event. The event...
2011-02-22
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PowerPointShell
I wanted to add a neat demo to my .NET Powers Activate! Form of PowerShell! presentation that would really demonstrate...
2011-02-18
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Presenting for the PASS PowerShell Virtual Chapter
On Wednesday, February 16 at 2:00pm CST I’ll be presenting “.NET Powers Activate! Form of PowerShell!” to the PASS PowerShell...
2011-02-14
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SQL Saturday #57 Slides, Code & Video
This past weekend I spoke at SQL Saturday #57 in Houston, TX.
I want to thank the local PASS chapter HASSUG,...
2011-01-30
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A Half-Price Seat at the Masters’ Table
Well, it looks like I half-won the SQLskills competition for a free seat at a SQLskills Master Immersion Event on...
2011-01-27
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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
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...
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Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
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SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
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Case part is sloooooow
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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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