The SQLSaturday Sensation - Celebrating the 100th Event!
The SQLSaturday Sensation!
Congratulations, Brazil! You are the recipient host country for SQLSaturday #100!! On Saturday, November 26, 2011, when the...
2011-07-19
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Blog Posts
Un-SQL Friday #005: Bad Interviews
Yesterday a friend told me a tale of an interview he conducted with a, shall we say, less than desirable...
2011-07-19
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Vote for the 2011 Exceptional DBA of the Year Award
It’s been my experience that most DBA’s aren’t properly recognized for their contributions to their organizations. As the “protectors of...
2011-07-19
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Denali SQLPS First Impressions
I’ve taken a few hours to try out Denali CTP 3 sqlps and noticed some welcome changes. The biggest change...
2011-07-18
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Event: NJSQL UG Tomorrow 7/19 - Management Data Warehouse
If you're in the local NY/NJ Tri-State area, and planning on attending, this is a reminder from the New Jersey...
2011-07-18
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Execute Permissions
Written by David Postlethwaite
Security of the SQL database is becoming more and more important these days yet I’m finding that...
2011-07-18
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Manic Monday......Notes from the field, Playing catchup
It's the beginning of the new work week, and as they say, it's Just Another Manic Monday....[Bangles].
I have a...
2011-07-18
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Cumulative Update 5 Released
Microsoft has released Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2. This CU has ten fixes listed in...
2011-07-18
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PASS Update #60
I’ve written a lot here, but for June & July (and part of August) I’m trying to just keep the ship...
2011-07-18
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Presenting Upserts to PASS AppDev VC
Hopefully this crowd knows a little about what they're getting into! John Jakubowski (blog|twitter) has graciously asked me to present on upsert strategies with SSIS. What are "upserts"? A...
2011-07-18
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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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