By Design
Just because something works, is it prudent to implement a solution knowing there is a chance this design flaw will be stricken from future revs of SQL Server? It depends.
2017-04-10
75 reads
Close Encounters of the CEIP Kind
Microsoft's Customer Experience Improvement Program for SQL Server: once easy to avoid, now hard to ignore, but Rodney Landrum sees an upside.
2017-02-06
1,533 reads
Bogging Down in the Minutia of Minutes
Rodney Landrum gets lost in the fourth dimension, while coding the infinite possible combinations of SQL Server dates and times.
2016-02-01
80 reads
2015-09-14
143 reads
Pier to Pier Replication on Frozen Lake Erie
In a guest post, Rodney Landrum ponders the gaps in his DBA experience at the edge of Lake Erie.
2015-03-02
118 reads
DBA of the World
Conference travel enhances our minds with more than just SQL. It exposes us to new cultures, people and possibilities.
2015-01-05
119 reads
I am no Asimov
Rodney Landrum on finding the inspiration you need, somehow and from somewhere, to get yourself out of a tight corner.
2014-09-29
128 reads
2014-04-14
158 reads
Redundant Redundancy
When DBAs too often find themselves trading sleep for Megabytes, it's time for a different approach to detection and alerting of disk space problems. So argues Rodney Landrum.
2014-01-20
119 reads
DEF CON SQL
An impromptu hacking session, in response to an inexplicably-changed password, reminds Rodney Landrum of some valuable lessons for every DBA.
2013-08-05
117 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
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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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