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Bradley Ball is a Sr. Azure FastTrack Customer Engineer for Microsoft, and former Data Platform MVP. During his IT career Bradley has spent 8 years working as a Defense contractor for clients such as the U.S. Army, The Executive Office of the President of the United States for the Obama Administration, and is the former Data Platform Practice Manager for Pragmatic Works Consulting, now 3Cloud. He has presented at SQL Saturdays, SSUG's, SQL Rally, DevConnections, SQLBits, SQL Live 360, and the PASS Summit. Bradley co-hosts the Tales From The Field YouTube show https://aka.ms/TftF/youtube , he can also be found blogging on https://www.SQLBalls.com

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PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Trimming Indexes, Getting Your Database in Shape

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Hello Dear Reader! Tomorrow at 12 noon eastern I’ll be presenting for the PASS DBA Virtual chapter, click here to...

2012-10-23

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DBA Study Guide

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Hello Dear Reader, over here at Pragmatic Works we’ve been growing like weeds. For the most part we are looking...

2012-10-18

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SQL Saturday 151 Interview: Stacia Misner

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Hello Dear Reader SQL Saturday 151 is just around the corner. If you haven't registerd there is still time to...

2012-09-27

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Please VOTE for Me: PASS Summit 2012 Lightening Talks

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyndydoty/2087680308/Hello Dear Reader the PASS Summit is approaching and with that the program committee sent out a request for Lightening...

2012-08-20

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Database Corruption, Transparent Data Encryption, and Trace Flag 5004

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This one comes straight from the email bag. A friend recently had a problem, they were placing TDE on a...

2012-08-17 (first published: 2012-08-13)

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SQL Saturday 151 BI Pre-con: Stacia Misner

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Hello Dear Reader, SQL Saturday 151 Orlando is picking up steam. The Pre-Con’s have been named and they are fantastic. ...

2012-08-16

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Database Certificates and the X.509 Standard

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Hello Dear Reader, I came across an interesting discovery about a year ago and realized I’d never written about it. ...

2012-08-14

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How to Data Compress Varchar(MAX)

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I talk a lot about compression. I’ve blogged a pretty decent amount on it as well. One of the things...

2012-08-08

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Book Review: On Writing A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King

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I just finished this book. Literally. Sitting on an airplane in route from Orlando to Charlotte NC. I got up...

2012-08-07

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How to Find Bad Page Splits

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I was working with a friend last week, doing SQL related teaching and tune ups. Earlier this week I had...

2012-08-06

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Blogs

A New Word: Dolorblindness

dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...

Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files

I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...

PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI

I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...

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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')

Assume preview features are enabled.

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