XQuery - Accessing the Attributes Axis
Working with a sequence of attributes in XQuery is fairly straight forward with the 'attribute' axis even if you don't...
2014-12-19
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Blog Posts
Conferences & Presentations of 2014 in Review
Reviewing the year 2014, I can see that I have truly started improving my life by lowering the number of...
2014-12-18
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Nominated for the 2014 Tribal Awards
Just like last year, SQLServerCentral.com and Simple Talk are hosting the Tribal Awards. In their words:
The Tribal Awards, co-hosted by Simple-Talk and...
2014-12-18
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PASS – Connect, Share and Learn
The Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) has a slogan for what they do – CONNECT, SHARE and LEARN. So, what...
2014-12-18
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T-SQL Tricks – Trigger Your Memory
I was scanning Twitter the other day and saw a note from someone that they had written a query using...
2014-12-18 (first published: 2014-12-11)
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2014 Tribal Awards Are Open
Yesterday morning I opened my email and was very pleased to find that I have been nominated for the 2014 Tribal...
2014-12-17
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Analytics Platform System (APS) AU3 released
The Analytics Platform System (APS), which is a renaming of the Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW), has just released an appliance update (AU3),...
2014-12-17
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Building Your First Windows Azure Machine
Recently, I had the pleasure of writing another article that was included the Notes From the Field series that is hosted...
2014-12-17
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Exam Prep 70-463: SSIS Connection Managers
This post is part of a series on this blog that will help me, and hopefully you, pass exam 70-463: Implementing...
2014-12-17 (first published: 2014-12-11)
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SQL Konferenz
I’ve spoken at lots of events, but all in the US and the UK. Next year I get my first...
2014-12-17
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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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