Interesting Reading for September 18, 2012
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Prepare for your first security breach. Sobering. As data professionals we’re going to get pulled...
2012-09-20 (first published: 2012-09-18)
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Blog Posts
Join Our Networking Dinner in Seattle
This is the third year that Andy Warren and myself are hosting a networking dinner in Seattle, just before the...
2012-09-20
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Parsing Windows event logs with PowerShell
Lately I’ve been toying with the idea of using PowerShell to parse the Windows event logs and possibly adding that...
2012-09-20
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SQL Server 2012 Upgrade
SQL Server 2012 has been in RTM since the 1st April 2012. Many of my clients have been evaluating the...
2012-09-20
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tablediff Utility
I recently stumbled across a little gem of a utility called tablediff. I have been working a lot with replication...
2012-09-20
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24 Hours of PASS
Tomorrow Brian Knight and I will kick off 24 hours of PASS with a session on Choosing a Microsoft Reporting...
2012-09-19
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Creating a User Defined Table Type
I saw a post about a user defined table type in SQL Server and I was sure it was a...
2012-09-19
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Database Recovery Advisor feature of SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 introduces Database Recovery Advisor that provides significant user experience improvements to the ways DBAs can restore databases...
2012-09-19
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Defining Variables
Querying Microsoft SQL Server : Defining Variables: Defining Variables in SQL Server: Like other programming languages T-SQL allows to defining your...
2012-09-19
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Lenovo–Three Strikes
Last Friday Lenovo told me my new laptop would ship this Monday, or “much much sooner”. Monday I called to...
2012-09-19
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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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
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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