PASS Summit Report 2: Seattle Again?
There is always a lot of talk about the fact that we have been in Seattle several years in a...
2010-11-16
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Blog Posts
PASS Update #47–Election Review Committee
As always, this represents my own views, I’m speaking only for me and not the entire PASS Board.
Early last week...
2010-11-16
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PASSMN Meeting Today
Check us out today by either traveling down to Bloomington or jumping in and joining us online. Today Minnesota’s SQL...
2010-11-16
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SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 1
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 1, which is Build 4266. I count 67 fixes...
2010-11-16
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SQL Server Team-Based Development
The new book is available in a free download from Red Gate. I had a lot of fun working on...
2010-11-16
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The SQL Server MCM Training Has Changed
One thing that stuck out for me at the PASS Summit was the changes announced for the SQL Server Microsoft...
2010-11-16
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The World’s Largest
Each year, the Georgia Bulldogs and the Florida Gators meet on the college grid iron in what’s called the world’s...
2010-11-16
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There should only be one ...
When visiting clients, I often find that one or more databases have a table (or several) containing metadata. Most often, these tables have only a single row of data...
2010-11-16
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There should only be one ...
When visiting clients, I often find that one or more databases have a table (or several) containing metadata. Most often, these tables have only a single row of data...
2010-11-16
7 reads
There should only be one ...
When visiting clients, I often find that one or more databases have a table (or several) containing metadata. Most often,...
2010-11-16
618 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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