Posting This Week
I just wanted to do a quick post to let everyone know that I am in fact going to be...
2011-09-28
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Blog Posts
RTO in Disaster Recovery
When you have a disaster, the time that you have to restore service is usually referred to as the RTO...
2011-09-28
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SQL Saturday 98, Iowa City
Calling all SQL peeps in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Omaha,…!
It’s time for another SQL Saturday at the beautiful University...
2011-09-28
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SQL Saturday 98, Iowa City
Calling all SQL peeps in Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Omaha,…! It’s time for another SQL Saturday at the beautiful University of Iowa campus. The speaker lineup looks great....
2011-09-28
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SQL Table Columns Disappear in Access
A couple weeks ago a user complained that on one of our development databases, one of the views he was...
2011-09-28
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SQL University SSIS : Named Pipes -- Consumer
Welcome to the third and last day of the Named Pipes seminar. Today we will get into the consumer portion...
2011-09-28
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SSIS Merge with Duplicate Rows
The Merge component in SSIS will take two sorted sources and union them while maintaining the original sort order. The...
2011-09-28
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ALTER AUTHORIZATION sql to change owner of a database
ALTER AUTHORIZATION changes the ownership of entities . Server level entity ownership can be changed to server- level principals. Database level...
2011-09-27
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24 Hours of PASS Questions
I finally found the time to work through the questions from the 24 Hours of PASS session that I did....
2011-09-27
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Data Head
Well, it’s official. I am a Data Head. It doesn’t change too much my level of geekiness. But I may...
2011-09-27
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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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