Why Do I Write? And Should I Continue?
It’s been about six months now since my career to a sharp right turn. At the request of my kids, I left a decade of consulting for a role...
2016-06-02
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Blog Posts
Another Recursive CTE–Doing Math
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...
2016-06-01
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Independent Azure Data Platform Instructors
The Azure Data Platform is taking off. I’m seeing more and more interest on the forums, at conferences and in...
2016-06-01
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Master_Views: master_objects, master_tables, etc
There is a highly useful system view called sys.master_files. If you’ve never encountered it before it returns a list of...
2016-06-01 (first published: 2016-05-23)
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 01 – Custom Visuals Introduction)
Welcome to an exciting new FREE class that I am launching today! Over the next year (that’s right year!) I...
2016-06-01
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PowerShell – Deleting those files
Usually I prefer to use C# to delete files (as part of my retention policy for backups) as a stored...
2016-06-01
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PowerShell : Script Method Error -Method invocation failed because [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ServerRole] does not contain a method named ‘Script’.
I was working on generating scripts for logins, users and server roles and I could able to to generate scripts...
2016-06-01
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Powershell, when were my servers rebooted?
One of my servers wasn’t rebooted when it should have been and I never realized it until after the outage...
2016-06-01
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Powershell, when were my servers rebooted?
One of my servers wasn’t rebooted when it should have been and I never realized it until after the outage was over. The big deal wasn’t that it didn’t...
2016-06-01
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SQL Server 2016 general availability and Feature-Support // allgemeine Verfügbarkeit und Feature-Support
(DE)
Es ist soweit: Der neue SQL Server, in meinen Augen das beste Release seit vielen, wenn nicht gar überhaupt,...
2016-06-01
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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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