Daily Coping 19 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to give kind comments to as many people as possible today. Not an easy tip for me to follow as I’ve been a little home...
2022-12-19
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Blog Posts
jurn - A Command Line Tool for Keeping Track of Your Work
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How do you keep track of your daily work accomplishments?
If you are like me, you wait until the end of the week and then...
2022-12-19
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jurn - A Command Line Tool for Keeping Track of Your Work
Watch this week's video on YouTube
How do you keep track of your daily work accomplishments?
If you are like me, you wait until the end of the week and then...
2022-12-19
8 reads
New Database Job – The 6 Month Plan
So, we made it through our first 90 days, things start getting tougher now as now we really got to start looking at getting projects
The post New Database Job...
2022-12-19 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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SQL Homework – December 2022 – What’s new in SQL Server?
SQL Server 2022 has been released! Long live SQL Server! No really, I’ve still got a while before retirement. I ... Continue reading
2022-12-19 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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What is TDE (Transparent Data Encryption)?
TDE is referred to as a “transparent” form of encryption. What that means is that the process of encrypting and decrypting data is fully performed in the background. The...
2022-12-19
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Creating a user for a STONITH resource in vSphere
I previously blogged about how to create a STONITH resource for a pacemaker cluster in VMWare virtual machines. Ok, I have a confession…you need to specify credentials when creating...
2022-12-16 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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Daily Coping 16 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to send a gift to someone new. I have been sending gifts to my daughter at college every month or so, but I decided I...
2022-12-16
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My Office Setup
At the PASS Summit a few weeks ago, I had a great chat with some folks about our home office setups. More and more of us are working from...
2022-12-16 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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Daily Coping 15 Dec 2022
Today’s coping tip is to support a charity or cause you care about. My big causes are food, housing, and education for those that are struggling. I like to...
2022-12-15
18 reads
Blogs
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...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
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The String Distance I
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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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