Dancing with Denali - CTP3, Product Guide, and More....
Have you ever danced with Denali in the Pale Moonlight? (Ok, I changed that famous quote from the original Batman...
2011-08-18
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Blog Posts
Derived Table Column Alias
By now, you have heard of subqueries. You have also heard of Common Table Expressions. I am sure you know...
2011-08-18
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Derived Table Column Alias
By now, you have heard of subqueries. You have also heard of Common Table Expressions. I am sure you know what a derived table is and that you get...
2011-08-18
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Feedback from SQL Saturday #64 in Baton Rouge
I did my session on The Top Ten SQL Server Skills You Need for the first time in Baton Rouge...
2011-08-18
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How to report a SQL Server performance problem
You’re experiencing a sudden slow down in SQL Server performance. Users are complaining .Many reasons could be causing this sudden...
2011-08-18
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SQL Server – "Denali" – Using Analytic Function CUME_DIST()
CUME_DIST() calculates relative position of a value relative to a group of values. The value returned by CUME_DIST() is > 0...
2011-08-18
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SQLMCM Training – Day 10
Today Paul was speaking about Database Mirroring and Jonathan was talking about Failover
Clustering – all in all a very intensive day...
2011-08-18
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Adding an Index to Save Space
Sounds weird right, but that is exactly what has happened with a VLDB I inherited. A third party database that...
2011-08-17
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Afterthoughts: SQL Saturday #79 South Florida 2011
This past Saturday August 13th I presented two sessions at SQL Saturday #79 hosted by the South Florida SQL Server...
2011-08-17
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Another New Contributor–Christian Dadswell
This is just a short post to introduce you all to my good friend Christian Dadswell who has kindly agreed...
2011-08-17
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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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