Re-Awarded MVP for 2011
I received my notice that I was renewed as a MIcrosoft MVP for SQL Server for 2011. It's a nice...
2011-01-01
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Blog Posts
TPC-E Benchmark Analysis by CPU Type
As an experiment, I decided to import the current official TPC-E results spreadsheet into a SQL Server 2008 R2 database,...
2011-01-01
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2010 - A Year without Specific Goals
In previous years I had set goals and even if I didn't fully achieve them, they were helpful in giving...
2010-12-31
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2010 Goals Review
I started the year with 10 Goals for 2010 and now I'll end it by looking at how many of...
2010-12-31
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Blogging on Blogging
So I must confess that my blogging efforts to date have been on the impersonal side
– perhaps even a bit...
2010-12-31
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Happy New Year
Well it’s Friday again and another big day.
Hopefully you all had a great Christmas and as we move to...
2010-12-31
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Quick MCM Prep Help
Before I went on vacation, I mentioned I was downloading some of the MCM videos from Technet.I had grabbed 4...
2010-12-31
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The Year of Change: 2010 In Review
Like clockwork, another year has come and (almost) gone. It’s been a wild year on many fronts: major happenings included...
2010-12-31
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Windows Cluster Scripting with WMI and PowerShell
Windows 2008 R2 includes a failoverclusters PowerShell module, but you’ll probably find normal usage limiting for several reasons:
Only works on...
2010-12-31
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – Substring() Function
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
Within the...
2010-12-31
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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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