Microsoft finally got SQL setup right!
This past week, Microsoft revealed that SQL Server 2016 will be available in June. Exciting news indeed! With that said,...
2016-06-22
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Blog Posts
Names From the Past
Can you guess what all of these people have in common?
Shawn WeisfeldJoe HealyBarry RalstonTrey JohnsonJon WinerWes DumeyDonnie ReynoldsKevin JacobsJoseph MemmoBrian...
2016-06-22
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Not a Great Search
Tldr: A bit of a rant. I’m not spending a bunch of time crafting this.
I have mixed feelings about searching...
2016-06-22
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OmniCompare: A free tool to compare SQL Instances
comparing instances
When working with a variety of instances, you can often deal with variances in configuration that might impact the...
2016-06-22 (first published: 2016-06-14)
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PASS Nominating Committee Update
Today PASS released a bunch of stuff for the upcoming election including the attributes of an “ideal candidate”. We put...
2016-06-22
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Selective Logging with the UPDATE() Function
Triggers can be very useful when you want to log changes to your data, but what if you’re only interested...
2016-06-22 (first published: 2016-06-16)
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SQL Server Security Series, part 1
In the first entry in this SQL Server security series, we will demonstrate a brute force attack against SQL Server...
2016-06-22
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SQLSaturday Orlando 2016 Call for Speakers Closes July 17, 2016
We’ve advanced the closing date for the SQLSaturday Orlando call for speakers to July 17. That’s to give us time...
2016-06-22
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A Better (Free) Search in SSMS
A few years back, Redgate Software released SQL Search. This was an internal project that became a free product we...
2016-06-21 (first published: 2016-06-15)
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Columnstore Indexes – part 85 (“Important Batch Mode Changes in SQL Server 2016”)
Continuation from the previous 84 parts, the whole series can be found at http://www.nikoport.com/columnstore/
I wanted to write a blog post...
2016-06-21
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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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