Voting Day is Here
Tis the season for voting and SQLServerPedia has thrown out an election as well. The SQLServerPedia awards are under way...
2010-11-02
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Blog Posts
Why are DBA skills necessary? #TSQL2sDay
Time for another T-SQL Tuesday and this time I’ll finish my entry in time. This month we are talking about...
2010-11-02
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“Wear Your SQL Saturday Shirt Day”
Over the past year there have been a number of SQL Saturday events. These events have occurred across the country...
2010-11-01
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Android Adventures–Part 1
I’ve used a Blackberry for the better part of 10 years, loyalty built because as a phone and an emailing...
2010-11-01
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Attend the PASS Summit From Home
You there, sitting in your cube and fuming at all the PASS Summit talk: you couldn’t talk your company into...
2010-11-01
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Finding Your Dream Job
My pre-conference session for the SQL Rally conference in the spring is called “Finding Your Dream Job”. Chris Shaw ( LinkedIn...
2010-11-01
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Fusion-io, What It Takes To Be On The Cutting Edge
I recently had the privilege to talk with David Flynn, former CTO, Founder and newly minted CEO about Fusion-io. How...
2010-11-01
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Leaving (for) Las Vegas
Tomorrow I’m off to Las Vegas for SQL Connections. Since tomorrow is also T-SQL Tuesday #012, I’m writing a pre-trip...
2010-11-01
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More Voting
As if the US Election and SQL Rally voting were not enough (and have you voted yet for the SQL...
2010-11-01
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Motivational Monday
In life there are not many guarantees. For DBA’s and developers there are a few:
1. Backups will become corrupted but...
2010-11-01
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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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