Do you use T-SQL debugging?
T-SQL debugging is not 100% in SQL Server. It has few bad drawbacks starting from difficulties when setting it up...
2011-07-13
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Blog Posts
How to move the MSDB database
First we need to know the name and file location of the MSDB database files. When you change the location, make...
2011-07-13
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Make It Simple With Policy-Based Management
At work recently, I explained to a coworker the reasons and benefits of having databases in Simple mode in your...
2011-07-13
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Simple Database User-Access Security Validation & Granting Elevated Access Temporarily Using the Execute As Statement
If you ever want to validate what level of access a user has within a database OR wish to temporarily...
2011-07-13
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SQL Server Codename “Denali” CTP3 Resources
SQL Server codename “Denali” CTP3 has been released to the public after much anticipation. You may ask yourself, “What happened...
2011-07-13
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SSIS package taking forever to load when you open it?
When you open a SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) package in SSIS Designer or add components to a package, SSIS...
2011-07-13
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SSSOL July 2011 Reminder
This is just a quick note to remind anybody who may be interested of the upcoming Las Vegas User Group...
2011-07-13
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SSSOL July 2011 Reminder
This is just a quick note to remind anybody who may be interested of the upcoming Las Vegas User Group meeting. As I posted here, we will be learning...
2011-07-13
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We have a new contributor…
In order to keep the content fresh and the posts flowing here on my blog I have decided to publish...
2011-07-13
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Automating Web App Deployments with SSIS
This is just a quick note to let everyone know I’ve uploaded the project files from my Pragmatic Works webinar...
2011-07-12
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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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