SQLSaturday #96 in DC - 11/5/2011
Coming to the Capitol, tomorrow Saturday, November 5, 2011 is SQLSaturday#96 in Washington, D.C.! This great event down in DC,...
2011-11-04
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Blog Posts
Things I Favorited on Twitter (a weekly wrapup, of sorts)
Each Friday on @Midnight">DBAs@Midnight (my live weekly webshow, 11pm CST at webshow.MidnightDBA.com!) I don’t feel like I have enough time...
2011-11-04
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What is SQL PASS?
A few weeks ago I asked a colleague, who is a DBA, if he was going to the SQL PASS...
2011-11-04
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Why I'm Running For The PASS Board Of Directors
If you read this week's onnector email you may have noticed that I'm one of the six candidates who have...
2011-11-04
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Why SQL Server is using so LESS memory
Today I want to talk about a phenomenon regarding memory management in SQL Server.
A few weeks ago I had a...
2011-11-04
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An Attempt to Make SSIS Package Deployment More Reasonable
Full disclosure: There might be a better way to do this. I am not aware of it.
Problems:
Maintaining multiple DB environments...
2011-11-03
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Another Color Wheel
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to work on a problem involving the color wheel. The requirements for that...
2011-11-03
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Another Color Wheel
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to work on a problem involving the color wheel. The requirements for that problem lent themselves to a solution involving bitwise operations...
2011-11-03
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DDL Auditing presentation – feedback
Well, I finally got the feedback from my SQL Audit presentation last month, and I’m very pleased. Ok, more than...
2011-11-03
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Dimensional Modeling Financial Data in SSAS pt2
Unary Operator and Aggregating over time
In my last post I discussed how to arrange all of the GLs into a...
2011-11-03
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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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