February #Meme15 – LinkedIn
It’s the afternoon of the 16th, and time to write my #meme15 post. Remember, these are due on or around...
2012-02-16
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Blog Posts
Monday Morning Mistakes: SSIS Expressions Not Evaluating Correctly
SSIS Expressions
Expressions in SSIS are great. They allow you to create dynamic values for all sorts of stuff like variables,...
2012-02-16 (first published: 2012-02-13)
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PowerPivot and Market Research
This past Tuesday, February 14, I was invited to discuss how technology can be used to help analyze data for...
2012-02-16
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Spruced up query_io_reader.rb
I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
Quickly identify what tables have the highest...
2012-02-16
570 reads
Spruced up query_io_reader.rb
I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
1. Quickly identify what tables have the highest IO in a particular
...
2012-02-16
4 reads
Spruced up query_io_reader.rb
I built a small ruby program a while back to help with two things:
Quickly identify what tables have the highest IO in a particular query
Learn a new language (Ruby)
The...
2012-02-16
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Tools to Monitor Performance of SQL Server
To gather statistical information on how a server is performing requires, you need to use operating system tools to gather...
2012-02-16
3,198 reads
Comparing Inline and Multi-Statement Table-Valued Functions
Table-Valued Functions. What a wonderful addition to SQL they make. They take parameters, do some work, and return a result...
2012-02-15
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Dynamic Add/Remove file in Mirroring/Logshipping
Yesterday we were having discussion on high availability feature Mirroring and Log shipping with my colleagues (Amol & Alankar) on whether...
2012-02-15
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Excerpt from Upcoming Book by Grant Fritchey Called Learn “SQL Server in a Month of Lunches”
Later this year, a new book by author Grant Fritchey, called Learn SQL Server in a Month of Lunches, will...
2012-02-15
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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Forums
Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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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('Steve', 'Stan')
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