SQL Saturday 97 starts in 7 hours
I flew into Austin Texas today and got to spend time with a lot of great people. The journey started...
2011-10-01
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Blog Posts
A Good Time to Be a SQL Server Professional
Wow! Can't believe today is the last day of September! Fall, here we come! Although Summer is over, Autumn is...
2011-09-30
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Creating your first Data Mining Structure and Model
Data mining is a great way to help your company make decisions and predict future values. The Data Mining Algorithms...
2011-09-30
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Free SQL Server in the City Event to be Held in LA
Red Gate Software will be providing a free, full-day SQL Server event called SQL in the City in Los Angeles,...
2011-09-30
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How to find a string value in all the string columns of a table/view in SQL Server ?
Introduction
I am sure many times we all might have come across situations where we need to search/find a string value...
2011-09-30
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Join the Wolf Pack at PASS Summit 2011
Quick update for all of you!
Hey there everyone! We are going to have some awesome surprises, new software features...
2011-09-30
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Microsoft SQL Server Reference Architecture and Appliances
Microsoft has made available SQL Server appliances and reference architectures that allow customers to deploy data warehouse (DW), business intelligence (BI) and...
2011-09-30
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New website, exciting future for BRSSUG
Just wanted to push out an announcement that the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group has a new website.
www.brssug.org
We've...
2011-09-30
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Presentation Files: 10 Things All BI Administrators Should Know
Presentation Files: 10 Things All BI Administrators Should Know
I sooooo remember this sign!
I was very excited to get to present...
2011-09-30
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Re-blog – September 23 – September 30
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-09-30
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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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