Database jokes
Sometimes when work is tough you simply need to take your eyes and mind away from your working console. Jokes are one...
2014-07-18
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Blog Posts
Display All SQL DateTime Conversions
If you want a quick way to determine which format, or style, to specify when converting a datetime value in...
2014-07-18
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Display All SQL DateTime Conversions
If you want a quick way to determine which format, or style, to specify when converting a datetime value in SQL to a character data type, you can use...
2014-07-18
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Friday Followup For July 18, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-07-18
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Reblog: July 11 to July 17
Photo credit – Mike Lynch
A good cure to a creepy doll is a good old post that is still useful. In...
2014-07-18
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SQL Speakers–Will You Accept The Chapter Challenge?
Most SQLSaturday’s do ok when it comes to finding speakers, the results of an incredible speaker mailing list and a...
2014-07-18 (first published: 2014-07-16)
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SQLSaturday Orlando–A Message From Last Year Revisited
I was doing some work on the marketing for SQLSaturday Orlando and looked back at the messages we sent last...
2014-07-18
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SSC Editorial: What Is the Hardest Feature to Learn About SQL Server?
I wrote What Is the Hardest Feature to Learn About SQL Server? not really knowing what answer to expect. So...
2014-07-18
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Execution Plan Details
I wouldn’t say it’s common knowledge that you should look at execution plans when tuning queries, but it’s not exactly...
2014-07-17 (first published: 2014-07-15)
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Goodbye Microsoft, Hello New Adventure
About two months ago, after 2.5 years, I left Microsoft.
Microsoft is an amazing place to work for. It’s conformable, balanced,...
2014-07-17
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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...
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Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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