SQL Server Best Practices
As a CIO or CTO, one of your primary responsibilities is to ensure that your organization’s data is managed effectively and efficiently. To do this, you need to have...
2022-09-14
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 13 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to focus on the basics today, eat healthy food, drink water, get exercise. I’m trying to make all of these a lifestyle change. In January,...
2022-09-13
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SSRS Management for the DBA
Things a DBA should know about SSRS
The post SSRS Management for the DBA appeared first on Tim Radney.
2022-09-13
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Synapse database templates info and tips
I had previously blogged about Azure Synapse Analytics database templates, and wanted to follow-up with some notes and tips on that feature as I have been involved on a...
2022-09-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #154–Thinking about SQL Server 2022
This month is an interesting T-SQL Tuesday party, as Glenn Berry hosts and asks us to think about the upcoming new release of SQL Server. Sometime later this year,...
2022-09-13
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Daily Coping 12 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to forgive yourself when things go wrong. A theme of being better to myself, starting with last Thur and Fri. What’s gone wrong for me?...
2022-09-12
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How to keep up with technology
(Side note: There is a “subscribe” button on the right side of my home page if you wish to receive my blogs updates via email as soon as they...
2022-09-12 (first published: 2022-08-29)
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SQLpassion Live Training about SQL Server Availability Groups
On September 29, 2022 I will run an SQLpassion Live Training about SQL Server Availability Groups. High Availability with previous versions of SQL Server was always complex: you had...
2022-09-12 (first published: 2022-09-05)
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Daily Coping 9 Sep 2022
Today’s coping tip is to let go of self-criticism and speak to yourself kindly. This tip follows on nicely from yesterday’s tip, just the other side of that one....
2022-09-09
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How To Linux: A Windows Administrator’s Guide to Linux for the Newbie
Well, it’s long overdue that I left the comfort of my Windows GUI and ventured into the world of Linux. Mind you I have dabbled a very little bit...
2022-09-09 (first published: 2022-08-29)
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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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