Starbucks Clover
I recently read Onward: How Starbucks Fought for Its Life without Losing Its Soul by Howard Schultz. Not bad reading...
2014-12-08
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Blog Posts
T-SQL Tuesday #61 – Giving Back
The Season of Giving
The annual PASS Summit (otherwise known as the #SQLFamily reunion) is over. Here in the United States,...
2014-12-08 (first published: 2014-12-02)
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Using a date or int column as the clustered index.
The other day I was answering a question about clustered indexes and it lead indirectly to a twitter conversation on...
2014-12-08 (first published: 2014-12-01)
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DacFX Links
I thought it would be a good idea to gather together a list of links for DacFx, blogs code or articles - if you have anything that you think...
2014-12-07
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DacFX Links
I thought it would be a good idea to gather together a list of links for DacFx, blogs code or...
2014-12-07
88 reads
DacFX Links
I thought it would be a good idea to gather together a list of links for DacFx, blogs code or...
2014-12-07
44 reads
Make Visual Studio Setup Slightly Faster
If you get the Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 web installer then it uses the BITS service to download the setup files.
The BITS service is used to download files...
2014-12-07
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Make Visual Studio Setup Slightly Faster
If you get the Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 web installer then it uses the BITS service to download the...
2014-12-07
53 reads
Make Visual Studio Setup Slightly Faster
If you get the Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 web installer then it uses the BITS service to download the...
2014-12-07
50 reads
2014-12-07
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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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