SQL Saturday #87 Report
I drove the over 250 miles from my home in Edwardsville, IL, to attend the SQL Server 87 in Louisville,...
2011-11-02
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Blog Posts
WAN Optimization Solutions–Input Needed Please!
I was just wondering if anyone has a WAN optimization solution as part of their infrastructure. I have a few...
2011-11-02
755 reads
10 More Days Until Inspiration! - SQLInspireNYC 2011
Can't believe we're ONLY 10 days out from what's shaping up to be quite an extraordinary awesome event! We've been...
2011-11-01
1,292 reads
Backup/restore/checkdb/shrinkfile progress
Have you ever wonderet how long you need to wait for a backup or restore command to complete? If you...
2011-11-01
1,112 reads
Being an Effective DBA Remotely
Do not let the phrase “out of sight, out of mind” apply to you.
As Data Professionals a lot of us...
2011-11-01
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BI Pyramid (read categories of users in a BI solution)
Purpose of any business intelligence solution is to provide users information and enable them to make intelligent decisions that benefit their...
2011-11-01
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Fame and Social Media
Reading this post about Alton Brown from Good Eats triggered me to think on the topic. It looks like initially...
2011-11-01
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Fatal Error Emails This Morning…
So every morning I check my email on my phone. Normally, I don’t see any error emails from SQL Server...
2011-11-01
705 reads
Free Business Intelligence Workshop
If you are in and around Dallas next week drop by my FREE half-day Business Intelligence workshop. The details are...
2011-11-01
1,669 reads
Get Inspired – SQL Inspire 2011 New York
Coming up next week is the SQL Inspire 2011 event in New York City. It’s an event with a number...
2011-11-01
1,681 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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