What SQL Server Books Do You Recommend?
Reprinted and amended from my editorial at Database Weekly.
For nearly 11 years now, one of the most common questions people...
2011-08-08
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Blog Posts
Chennai SQL Server User Group and me
My one week long search to identify active SQL Server community in Chennai ended last Sunday.
Chennai SQL Server User Group...
2011-08-07
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Delete backup files older than days
For almost all sql backup jobs, we want to have a step to delete old backup files older than a...
2011-08-06
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Audit SQL Logins
Written by David Postlethwaite There are several ways that you can audit who has logged in to your SQL Server. The...
2011-08-05
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Celebrating Mistakes-Part 2
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. It’s easy to say we want to take risks, much harder to set...
2011-08-05
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Come One Come All S3OLV August 2011
Hey Yo!! We are primed and ready for this month down in Las Vegas. We have a return presenter and we are looking to get some speed freak on...
2011-08-05
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Come One Come All S3OLV August 2011
Hey Yo!! We are primed and ready for this month down in Las Vegas. We have a return presenter and...
2011-08-05
562 reads
I Am Going to Be a Big Brother #sqlpass #firsttimers
Well at the PASS Summit at least. The Summit is trying to make sure that all of our first timers...
2011-08-05
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Microsoft Certifications and MVP’s – What are they?
I take it for granted that everyone knows all about Microsoft certifications and Microsoft MVP’s. But a few years ago,...
2011-08-05
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PowerPivot – Perspectives
PowerPivot – Perspectives
Many times when developing larger Analysis Services cubes you may find it necessary to use Perspectives to logically split...
2011-08-05
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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
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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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