Notes on SQLSaturday Tampa 2018
Quick notes:
Same location as previous years, good!Parking was same place, but it was confused by a pay-to-park event on the...
2018-03-26
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Blog Posts
PROJECT LIFE LESSONS - # Not The GDPR News
PROJECT LIFE LESSONS - # Not The GDPR News
Mark Williams and myself will delivering a seminar called #Not the GDPR news in Cardiff on...
2018-03-26
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Query Store and Automated Cleanup
Query Store has mechanisms for automatically cleaning your data. It is possible to cause them to break down. While presenting...
2018-03-26
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Revisiting catch-all queries
I originally wrote about catch-all queries early in 2009, just as something that I’d seen several times in client code....
2018-03-26 (first published: 2018-03-13)
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The 700 Milestone for SQL Saturday
This past weekend was SQL Saturday #700. Another milestone in the franchise of events, and I was glad to attend....
2018-03-26
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2018-03-25
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Allowing Azure Service to Connect to your Azure SQL server.
Allowing Azure Service to Connect to your Azure SQL server.
In this video David will look at the impact of allowing...
2018-03-23 (first published: 2018-03-13)
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Community
Community.
In the SQL Server community, we are basically one big #sqlfamily. This is a story of how the family helped...
2018-03-23
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 95 – VitaraCharts–MicroChart)
In this module you will learn how to use the VitaraCharts – MicroChart. The VitaraCharts – MicroChart provides a intuitive way to...
2018-03-23
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Scripting Tables with dbatools
I really like the dbatools project. This is a series of PowerShell cmdlets that are built by the community and...
2018-03-23
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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
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
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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