PASS BoD Election Questions – Summit location
As you may have seen in my post yesterday “PASS Board of Directors Election: Candidates announced” I am running for...
2013-09-24
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Blog Posts
PASS Elections 2013
Yesterday the slate of candidates for the PASS Board of Directors was announced. Seven candidates for three open positions this...
2013-09-24
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PASS Elections part two
Tim Ford is running for a seat on the PASS Board of Directors and has my vote. Yes I think...
2013-09-24
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Poor Microsoft Doesn’t Understand What Tablets Are For
That’s the title of an article i came across this morning in Slate.com. I am not a big fan of...
2013-09-24
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Premium Database on Azure
One of the things that can make Windows Azure SQL Databases (WASD) attractive is the fact that they run inside...
2013-09-24
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SQL Server Diagnostic Information Queries for September 2013
I have gone through and made some minor updates and bug fixes for all of my SQL Server Diagnostic Information...
2013-09-24
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SQL Server Hardware and Storage Links
Being a DBA is more than just knowing about SQL: it’s about the technology which SQL runs on, which includes servers and storage. I’m naturally interested in hardware, so...
2013-09-24
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SQL Server Internals Presentation with PASS DC Chapter October 10, 2013
If you’re in the DC/Baltimore area, or just feel like coming to DC to learn about SQL Server, please join...
2013-09-24
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Why the Lazy Spool Is Bad
First thing, there are no bad operators, just bad parents, uh, I mean query writers, or database designers, or ORM...
2013-09-24 (first published: 2013-09-16)
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Cumulative update package 6 for SQL Server 2012 SP1
Microsoft has release the CU update package 6 for SQL Server 2012 SP1. To apply this package in your environment,...
2013-09-23
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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
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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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