Indexed views on any core SQL server edition-The video
A few months back I created a blog post showing that you can indeed create and use indexed views on any core SQL server edition. It has proved to...
2015-10-10
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Indexed views on any core SQL server edition–The video
A few months back I created a blog post showing that you can indeed create and use indexed views on...
2015-10-10
450 reads
SQL Server Contracting - The first 14 months (or so)
Crikey, where did that time go! I have been so busy adjusting to my new work life style I have...
2015-10-09
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SQL Server Contracting – The first 14 months (or so)
Crikey, where did that time go! I have been so busy adjusting to my new work life style I have completely neglected my blog.. Well now that I seem...
2015-10-09
5 reads
XQuery – Accessing the Attributes Axis
Working with a sequence of attributes in XQuery is fairly straight forward with the “attribute” axis even if you don’t...
2014-12-26 (first published: 2014-12-19)
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XQuery - Accessing the Attributes Axis
Working with a sequence of attributes in XQuery is fairly straight forward with the 'attribute' axis even if you don't...
2014-12-19
839 reads
Creating cards in Trello via the REST API and parsing the returned JSON all in a SQL CLR
I recently blogged about how good I thought Trello was and shortly afterwards I found out that they did provide...
2014-11-12
299 reads
Updated blog Site
This post is mainly to test the syndication still works correctly from my heavily updated web/blog site so apologies for...
2014-11-12
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Updated blog Site
This post is mainly to test the syndication still works correctly from my heavily updated web/blog site so apologies for...
2014-11-12
147 reads
Drop and Recreate all Synonyms
Had a quick job the other day restoring a pair of databases under different names which is all straight forward...
2014-11-06 (first published: 2014-10-27)
18,727 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
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
Comments posted to this topic are about the item When SQL Server Central Went...
The String Distance I
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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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