Problem Recently I had a situation where I was looking at a SQL Instance due to a contractor who controls the system wanting to drop
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2023-01-27 (first published: 2023-01-18)
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I am very excited and lucky to be speaking once again at SQLBits along with my DCAC colleagues. SQLBits, the largest Data Platform conference in Europe, held this year...
2023-01-27
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Monitoring for Problems The encryption of your existing data occurs as a background process referred to as the encryption scan, but it will consume resources while it runs, so...
2023-01-27
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Today’s coping tip is to focus on what’s good, even if today feels tough. Yesterday was a tough day. I got busy, distracted, had some bad news come up,...
2023-01-26
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Introduction Purity is the operating environment that runs Pure Storage products like FlashArray and Cloud Block Store. Starting in Purity 6.0, you can assign tags to objects. This post...
2023-01-26
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Today’s coping tip is to be gentle with yourself when you make mistakes. I forgot about a commitment. I had agreed to do a webinar and prepare some content....
2023-01-25
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The question of encryption seems to be coming up a lot recently. I’ve had a number of people asking me about how to go about encrypting SQL Server. SQL...
2023-01-25 (first published: 2023-01-17)
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Previously the only way to run SQL Server on Apple Silicon was via QEMU emulation or Colima (hat tip to Anthony Nocentino). Docker released beta support today for Apple’s...
2023-01-25 (first published: 2023-01-12)
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Today’s coping tip is to get outside and notice five beautiful things. I decided to do this on a snowy, stormy day in Denver. I was up early with...
2023-01-24
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Fresh off of a two-part, co-authored blog series on certification exams and test-taking prep, I've got a fresh batch of fun sample questions for the January 2023 Data Weekender Exam...
2023-01-24
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I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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