2010 PASS Summit Interviews
It’s entirely fair to say that the highlight of my professional year is the PASS Summit in Seattle, and the...
2010-12-30
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Blog Posts
Can You Dig It? – StmtSimple Element
She can dig it!
D Sharon PruittWe’re up to the seventh post on the in the plan cache series. This time...
2010-12-30
1,970 reads
Looking Back at 2010
I’m writing this the day before Xmas, trying to finish up a bunch of odd tasks before the holiday weekend...
2010-12-30
1,447 reads
MCM Prep - VLF Allocations
I had heard that you could have too many VLFs in your transaction log, and it could cause performance issues....
2010-12-30
1,935 reads
Reviewing My 2010 Goals
You can go over my goals here. I’ve really hesitated to do this post because, in my opinion, I did so poorly. Here’s what I did: Community ...
2010-12-30
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Reviewing My 2010 Goals
You can go over my goals here. I’ve really hesitated to do this post because, in my opinion, I did...
2010-12-30
1,425 reads
SELECT * FROM SQLBLOGGERS WHERE LOCATION = ‘UK’
I published a post yesterday where I listed my top 5 bloggers from the worldwide SQL community for 2010. The...
2010-12-30
1,926 reads
Wiring up a common click event handler in an ASP.NET page
I was just refactoring a server-side control and ran into some horrible code. Basicaly there was a big listbox that...
2010-12-30
3,111 reads
A Change of Pace
As some of you may have already heard, I spent much of December moving from Hawaii to Missouri. Generally, when...
2010-12-29
1,558 reads
Book Review: Bury My Heart at Conference Room B
Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managers by Stan Slap ($15 @ Amazon) is...
2010-12-29
733 reads
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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