August Meme Monday – Crap Code
Interesting topic this month posted by Thomas LaRock. This month he has chosen “crap code” as the topic. I think it is interesting because there really are so many...
2011-08-01
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Blog Posts
August Question: How Do You Manage Your Transact-SQL Scripts?
Whether it is Transact-SQL for applications you are developing, or just for routine administrative tasks, managing Transact-SQL has never been...
2011-08-01
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For your CIO: Building Technical Leaders
I might send this to a VP or CIO: Global CIO: A Framework For Developing Technical Leaders. It’s an article...
2011-08-01
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Notes from SQLSaturday #81
I started by journey to Birmingham by leaving work at 1130 and getting to the airport in time to have...
2011-08-01
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Recruiting for “Women In Technology” panelist for Oregon SQLSaturay Oct 8th, 2011
We are recruiting panelists for a “Women in Technology” discussion at SQLSaturday Oregon. SQLSaturday is an all-day free training event...
2011-08-01
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Rolling your own index lookups
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been training developers in what they really need to know about SQL Server to...
2011-08-01
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SQL Server “Denali”: Project Apollo
Project Apollo is a new feature in CTP3 of SQL Server Denali that enables a new columnstore index that offers...
2011-08-01
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Telecommuting - Hype or Happening? - Making the Case to your Higher-ups
We've seen the argument before, that working from home, actually increases productivity. This is one of the major cases in...
2011-08-01
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We Have Another New Contributor…
I’d like to introduce you all to my friend Ian Treasure who has kindly volunteered to write some posts and...
2011-08-01
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PowerPivot – Creating Hierarchies
Hierarchies are one of the long awaited features that will now be available in the latest version of PowerPivot. Hierarchies...
2011-07-31
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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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