Un-SQL Friday: Branding
So looks like we have another blog party on our hands, this time courtesy of Jen McCown (Blog | Twitter), one...
2010-11-19
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Blog Posts
Un-SQL Friday: Branding?
Following in Midnight DBA’s more interesting half new blog fest topic.
My branding? I don’t have a clue. There, I said...
2010-11-19
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Want to Make Your SQL Server Run Faster for Free?
I know I do!
The trick is to properly manage your VLFs.
What are VLFs? The short anser is that VLF...
2010-11-19
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – XMLNAMESPACE
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
Let’s talk...
2010-11-19
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I am a Risk Taker
Somewhat of a strange title, but it’s been an interesting journey to understand that I do take risks and to...
2010-11-18
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Part of the Election Review Committee...
... and I'm wary, but not weary. I'm not weary because I'm looking forward to trying to help. I'm not weary...
2010-11-18
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Reason for Early Termination of Statement
Wouldn’t you like to know why the optimizer stopped tuning the execution plan you’re looking at? It’s actually possible and...
2010-11-18
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Recompiles
I’ve looked at cache hit and miss events and at the cache insert and remove events. The only cache-monitoring event...
2010-11-18
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Scheduled Out
I’m all scheduled out for the next week with newsletters and content ready to go through Nov 29. I’m not...
2010-11-18
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SQLSaturday#59 Special Interview with Melissa Demcsak, aka SQLDiva
SQLSaturday#59 Special Interview with Melissa Demcsak, aka SQLDiva
Only two days left until our super SQLSaturday#59 event. Hope all is well...
2010-11-18
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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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