Suspect Database
Suspect database generally caused by internal IO issue, and the best way to resolve it to ask hardware person to...
2011-12-19
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Blog Posts
Why Do I Blog? #meme15
As I mentioned in a post last week, a new meme has been born. This one is dedicated to discussing...
2011-12-19 (first published: 2011-12-15)
1,546 reads
Undocumented Gotcha in Merge Replication Tracking
In the spirit of Robert Davis's (blog | @SQLSoldier) blog post: Undocumented Gotchas of Transactional Replication, I decided to contribute an...
2011-12-18
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Using Dynamic Values in XMLA
Using Dynamic Values in XMLA
XMLA
A question was raised on Twitter today via the #sqlhelp hash tag about passing parameter values...
2011-12-18
1,928 reads
Albanian SQL Server Users Group - First meeting
Today, I’m so excited to announce that we had the first meeting of our Users Group – Albanian SQL Server Users...
2011-12-17
1,319 reads
Albanian SQL Server Users Group–First Meeting
Today, I’m so excited to announce that we had the first meeting of our Users Group – Albanian SQL Server Users...
2011-12-17
920 reads
Configuring and monitoring transactional replication between two SQL Server 2005 instances…
Replication often plays an important part in your database management strategy. An organization may use database replication for load balancing,...
2011-12-17
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spid in Killed/Rollback cannot kill
We come across a situation where we have to kill one spid which was running for quite some time, so...
2011-12-17
3,542 reads
Undocumented Gotchas of Transactional Replication
Undocumented Gotchas of Transactional Replication
Gotcha - Norelco commercial (1977)
This discussion started on Twitter via the #sqlhelp hash tag. The question that...
2011-12-17
1,390 reads
Why do I Blog?
Last week I heard about a new blog party/meme coming down the pipe for the #SQLFamily. This new meme is Meme15 and is the pet project of Jason Strate (Blog|Twitter)....
2011-12-17
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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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