T-SQL Tuesday #13 Roundup
After my call for “What the Business Says Is Not What the Business Wants”, there were quite a few people...
2010-12-17
1,317 reads
Blog Posts
Unusual BBQ
Recently some friends invited me to try a BBQ place that they enjoyed, so I went along hoping for the...
2010-12-17
593 reads
1.5 Years in, U.K. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, Delivers on the Data Protection Act
A year after the Telegraph reported that Information Commissioner Graham would pledge a fierce approach to the stonewalling approach of...
2010-12-16
1,477 reads
Behold, SSIS Advanced Editor for Data Source Components
It's not everyday that one of your information vendors decides to change
the format of its data feed. Evidently, today is not every day. It would
be one thing...
2010-12-16
15 reads
Behold, SSIS Advanced Editor for Data Source Components
It's not everyday that one of your information vendors decides to change the format of its data feed. Evidently, today...
2010-12-16
836 reads
Behold, SSIS Advanced Editor for Data Source Components
It's not everyday that one of your information vendors decides to change the format of its data feed. Evidently, today is not every day. It would be one thing...
2010-12-16
13 reads
Denver SQL Server User Group Holiday Party
Tonight was the 2010 Denver SQL Server User group party. I typically haven’t done in the past to the holiday...
2010-12-16
1,156 reads
Giving Thanks
I often say I am where I am in the community because of other folks. As we approach the close...
2010-12-16
726 reads
Insert_Identity Permissions
Despite my joking with Aaron Bertrand on Twitter that his suggestion on Connect got voted down because he’s Canadian, I...
2010-12-16
1,036 reads
Notes from the December 2010 OPASS Meeting
Our December meeting was a time for a lot of changes:
New location, the Hampton Inn in Lake Mary. It’s further...
2010-12-16
588 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')
Assume preview features are enabled. See possible answers