How Stale Are My Statistics?
Unlike fine wine, you typically wouldn’t want your statistics to be aged. At least for tables that are being updated...
2010-11-05
11,757 reads
Blog Posts
Live Streaming Keynotes From PASS Summit 2010
I just wanted to help spread the word that the PASS Summit Keynotes will be streamed live via LiveMeeting next...
2010-11-05
591 reads
My PASS Summit 2010 Schedule
The 2010 PASS Summit is a few days away and my schedule has gone from wide open to booked solid!...
2010-11-05
649 reads
My Schedule for the PASS 2010 Summit
I’m doing the final and somewhat hectic work of preparing for the trip to Seattle for the PASS Summit. It’ll...
2010-11-05
680 reads
PASS Summit Sunday Night Dinner & Meetup
Earlier this week I posted the announcement about an informal get together on Sunday night November 7th for those arriving...
2010-11-05
1,093 reads
PASSMN 2011 Board of Directors
For the third year in a row, we’ve had a blockbuster PASSMN Board of Directors election. By that, I mean...
2010-11-05
612 reads
Post 100 – A Year Gone (not quite)!
I wasn’t going to make a special effort for the one hundredth post on my blog, I was intending to...
2010-11-05
777 reads
SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Return Last Date of the Prior Month
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek
Twitter: @briankmcdonald
Welcome to the fourth post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...
2010-11-05
581 reads
SQLSaturday#59 - Reflection on the Speaker Interview Series...
No speaker interview today, (didn't have time to format it today), just some reflection on the Speaker Interview Series, thus...
2010-11-05
656 reads
SSIS: Using a Script Component as a substitute OLEDB Destination
I developed an SSIS package that loads invoices, statements, pro-formas, etc. into a SQL Server table. The invoices are .pdf...
2010-11-05
633 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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