Power Tools for Windows
Scott Hanselman has a great list of the power tools he uses for Windows and development. It’s worth a read,...
2011-12-06
1,791 reads
Blog Posts
Quiet Wednesday
For me the Wednesday before Thanksgiving was a quiet day at work. It was one of those ‘everyone is leaving...
2011-12-06
610 reads
SQL Connections Fall 2011 Speaker Evaluations
In keeping with the past, I’m going to go ahead and post my evals for the two sessions I did...
2011-12-06
1,580 reads
SQL Saturday 99 – RBA Consulting Interview
Welcome to the third of a few sponsor interview posts from SQL Saturday 99. After reading Arnie Rowland’s (Blog | @ArnieRowland)...
2011-12-06
730 reads
SQL server 2012 Startup parameters
I’m sure that I’m not the only one with nightmares about the startup parameters in older versions of SQL Server...
2011-12-06
1,170 reads
The Final 15 Revealed: DBA in Space
Today, the final 15 competitors were announced at the DBA in Space website. To get into the final 15, the...
2011-12-06
931 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #025 – Tips and Tricks
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Allen White (blog | @SQLRunr ). The topic: Share your T-SQL tips and tricks. ...
2011-12-06
1,243 reads
What is a DBA?
The voting for Red Gate Software’sDBA in Space Contest is to begin on Tuesday, December 6, after the final 15...
2011-12-06
688 reads
You Should Never Use Backup Log Truncate_Only Except...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulhagon/369576792/I want to start this blog out with a Warning Dear Reader. The technique that I am going to describe...
2011-12-06
809 reads
A traveling man
It’s been a long year for me. This year I’ve attended:
SQL Saturday #60 – Cleveland SQL Saturday #66 – Colorado Springs MVP...
2011-12-05
959 reads
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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