T-SQL Tuesday #53: Why so serious
Why so serious? If you ask anyone who knows me they will tell you I’m not a terribly serious person....
2014-04-11 (first published: 2014-04-08)
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Why So Serious? – #TSQL2sDAY #53
As a child/pre-teen/teenager/young adult, OK, most of my life, I’ve been labeled as “serious” or “grumpy”. Maybe I deserve it...
2014-04-11 (first published: 2014-04-08)
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Alter Table Not Permitted
By David Postlethwaite
At my presentation on SQL Server Management Studio at SQL Saturday in Exeter I promised to write some...
2014-04-10
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Collation: Correction -> Expression, Column, Database
I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading about them. As I read...
2014-04-10
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Collation: Correction -> Expression, Column, Database
I had a recent run in with collation problems and it got me started reading about them. As I read...
2014-04-10
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First Birthday to My Blog
Today is the First year anniversary of my blog. After thinking a lot and going through many un-imaginable resource available over...
2014-04-10
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First Birthday to My Blog
Today is the First year anniversary of my blog. After thinking a lot and going through many un-imaginable resource available over...
2014-04-10
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Heartbleed bug: immediate security threat for both IT, and consumer sites and services
“An encryption flaw called the Heartbleed bug is already being called one of the biggest security threats the Internet has...
2014-04-10
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I’m a Traveling Man
We are coming into quite a busy time for my speaking schedule. I’m hitting the road. It does one thing...
2014-04-10
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Rolling back transactions with cursors and local variables.
I’ve been doing some work on a credit card payment system lately. Obviously this needs to be robust and consistent...
2014-04-10
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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