How To Fix OBS Black Screen when recording SQL Server Session Demo’s?
Everyone loves a demo. When I say everyone, I mean I personally love seeing a demo in a session which is why 99% of any sessions I present will...
2020-04-02
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Delayed Durability in the wild…
Background
We have recently been working on large data migration project for one of our clients and thought I would share...
2016-11-18 (first published: 2016-11-14)
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Why would you never use SSIS Fast Load…?
We all know that if you want SQL Server to push data into a table then you want to batch the...
2016-11-17 (first published: 2016-11-14)
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Windows 10 Upgrade on Surface Pro 3 – Sending email issue FIXED
I very rarely blogabout anything other than SQL Server but felt that with a lot of the SQL Community using...
2015-08-02
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SQLNorthEast Usergroup 2015 dates announced (preliminary)
Mike and I have been extremely busy over the Xmas period and we’ve finally sorted dates for our 2015 instalment of...
2015-01-13
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Merge csv files – quick PowerShell snippet
During a bit of work I’ve been doing this evening for SQLRelay, I used something I have in my arsenal of...
2014-07-14
1,079 reads
2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney...
2013-12-31
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Output SQL Server data from multiple tables to Tab Delimited text files using Powershell
I had a request this morning for something I though was actually very simple:
Client: “Can you extract all data for...
2013-12-27 (first published: 2013-12-20)
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SQL Server NorthEast – New Usergroup!!
SQLBits in Nottingham was where it all began. A short conversation on whether there were any plans for a SQL...
2013-11-19
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Making sure your Triggers fire when they should
As some of you may be aware, triggers are not my favourite thing in the world but like most things,...
2013-03-04
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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...
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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