SQL Server 2012 – new conversion functions
With SQL Server 2012 comes a new set of conversion functions, that will certainly help doing type casts and conversions...
2011-12-20
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday Goes International
Looking at 2011 and the planned events so far for 2012 it’s easy to see that SQLSaturday is starting to...
2011-12-20
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Contracting is business not employment: Read the small print
This post is about a contracting in UK. Some of terms mentioned here will not mean a great deal to...
2011-12-19
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Creating a Service Master Key in SQL Server
The basis for all the encryption in SQL Server is the Service Master Key, which is the top of the...
2011-12-19
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Junk dimensions
Junk dimensions are dimensions that contain miscellaneous data such as flags and indicators. When designing a data warehouse, you might...
2011-12-19
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PASS Summit 2012 Evaluation Results
I say it all the time because it’s worth repeating, feedback is a gift. Good, bad or indifferent (well, not...
2011-12-19
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Pitching Pebbles – Using Certificates to Grant Privileges
If you fill the jar with pebbles first, you'll never have room for the big rocks.
I’m sure you’ve heard the...
2011-12-19
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Read About SQLSatuday #100 & See the Coffee Cup Too!
Here’s a great post from Karla Landrum about her trip (with husband Rodney) to Brazil for the milestone making #100....
2011-12-19
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SELECT GetDate() – 30 AS [This actually works??];
I just ran across this in a piece of code (that I didn’t write):
… WHERE Thing >GETDATE()- 30
Aaaand it works....
2011-12-19
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SharePoint Reports and Scorecards on Apple Devices
While some people may consider this topic off limits the fact remains that more and more companies are adopting Apple...
2011-12-19
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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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