Blogging: Starting a Blog
Following on from the first post in my blogging series Building a Blog I’m just going to take a quick...
2012-01-30
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Blog Posts
Breaking Down TempDB Contention (part 2)
Breaking Down TempDB Contention (part 2)
Tempdb Contention via Idera Diagnostic Manager
I wrote a somewhat popular script and blog post a...
2012-01-30
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Complex reporting off a SSAS cube
While using a cube in SSAS is usually a great source for reporting, it is not always the best choice....
2012-01-30
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Execution Plans, What Do I Look At?
The question came up, what are the top 3-5 things that you look at in a query. I realized then...
2012-01-30
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New article: Identifying What Runs at Startup on SQL Server
Another article has published over at MSSQLTips.com. This one covers how to identify what stored procedures are set to run when...
2012-01-30
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RYO Maintenance Plan – Database Backups, Part 2
Last time I dealt with the creation of subdirectories, in one or more root locations, to house my database backups....
2012-01-30
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Slammer, Alive…Barely
Slammer
By now you must have heard of the SQL Slammer worm. It was quite an infectious little nuisance. The harm...
2012-01-30 (first published: 2012-01-24)
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SQL server – ISNUMERIC and checking for valid numeric tyopes
During a large ETL process from a staging table , UPDATE was creating an error on a CONVERT.
Msg 245, Sev 16,...
2012-01-30
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System Base Tables
On January 19th, I published a post about the Dedicated Administrator Connection. I spoke very briefly of the system base...
2012-01-30
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System Base Tables
On January 19th, I published a post about the Dedicated Administrator Connection. I spoke very briefly of the system base tables in that article. Today, I want to dive...
2012-01-30
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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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