Find Recently Run Queries
If you have ever closed a query window by accident only to wish you could get back your work an...
2011-11-03
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Blog Posts
Recording SQL Server Configuration Settings.
(I’m ‘standing in for Brad, who is busy ..er.. somewhere, and I found this unpublished piece by Brad and I....
2011-11-03
1,417 reads
SQL Server 2012: Business Intelligence Edition
Well this was quite the little surprise this morning. Microsoft announced a new edition to the SQL Server lineup for...
2011-11-03
2,717 reads
Correction of my unfair and incorrect words against SQLWorkshops.com
On October 18, 2011 I have made unfair and incorrect words on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn,
and Xing against the owners of...
2011-11-02
769 reads
Latest post from Bill Gates featuring Hans Rosling’s animated bubble graphs
I just caught a tweet from Bill Gates with yet another fascinating presentation from Hans Rosling on the Gates Notes...
2011-11-02
782 reads
Meetings as Battles
I was in a meeting recently that had some quiet tension to it, at least two different sides represented and...
2011-11-02
528 reads
My PASS Summit 2011 Experience
The 2011 PASS Summit is in the rear view mirror (has it really been almost three weeks now?)...and as always...
2011-11-02
930 reads
Presenting at SQL Saturday #96
I’m honored to have been selected to present two sessions at SQL Saturday #96 in our nation’s capital, Washington DC...
2011-11-02
789 reads
Presenting Tomorrow (Thursday) via Webinar - SQL Server Security
I have the privilege of being able to give a webinar tomorrow, November 3, at 11 AM EDT. It will...
2011-11-02
1,085 reads
Salaried employee vs contractor
Are you a salaried employee looking to switch to a W-2 or 1099 contractor? (For an explanation of W-2 and...
2011-11-02
4,116 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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