The affordable self-service BI revolution has started.
I am officially announcing that I have now become an independent consultant and business owner. Becoming independent has always been...
2012-01-30
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Blog Posts
The Idera ACE Program, So Far
The Idera ACE program is something I’ve been involved with for over a year now. I’ll share a bit of...
2012-01-30
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When DBCC INPUTBUFFER disappoints
Today we have an alert from one of the client server about blocking, I have immediately start looking at it...
2012-01-30
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Detect Worst Performing SQL Queries
This series of Videos will walk through how to detect worst performing sql queries which is slowing down Microsoft SQL...
2012-01-29
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Find failed SQL jobs with powershell
This weekend I went to SQL Saturday in Auckland. It was nice to interact with other DBAs again. Kent Chenery...
2012-01-29
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Find Login in Active Directory
Find Login in AD
Many times we require to know if particular login is a part of ad user group. Or...
2012-01-29
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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...
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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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