Monday Morning SQL Break – June 27, 2016
The best way to make the most of the week is to set your goals. One of the things I...
2016-06-27
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Blog Posts
Retrieving the SQL Server License Key
Strangely enough its been a long time since I installed SQL in production. It’s almost always done by someone on...
2016-06-27
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The Desktop Rebuild–Part 2
You can read part 1, but that’s more about the (initial) hardware changes. This one looks at getting moving on...
2016-06-27
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SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 4 (the late edition)
So… it’s Saturday night and I missed getting this out on Friday morning…
But, in past three weeks’ posts (1, 2, 3),...
2016-06-26
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SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 4 (the late edition)
So… it’s Saturday night and I missed getting this out on Friday morning… But, in past three weeks’ posts (1, 2, 3), I talked about how I’ve got a few copies...
2016-06-26
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2016
There is a huge time for suspense for everyone in the Microsoft Data Platform space, whenever its time to submit...
2016-06-25
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SQL Compare 12: Initial Look
I know there have been a few other folks going into more detail on SQL Compare 12 (beta), but I...
2016-06-25
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My PASS Summit 2016 Session Submissions Feedback
I’m excited to say that I will be delivering a session in this year’s PASS Summit in Seattle later this...
2016-06-24
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PASS Summit 2016 – Connect, Share, Learn
Please join me and about 4000+ other technology professionals for the annual PASS Summit in Seattle, WA October 24th – 28th....
2016-06-24
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PASS Summit 2016 – My Session Evaluations
No Sessions For You! The announcements of the speakers and sessions selected for the PASS Summit 2016 were recently announced,...
2016-06-24
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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
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
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...
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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