SQLRally, Pre-Cons, and Taking Risks
Before I get into my thoughts, go vote! Here are the options this year for the SQLRally pre-cons:
BI Sessions: http://www.sqlpass.org/sqlrally/2011/PreConsforVotingBI.aspxDBA...
2010-10-29
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday #59 – Speaker Interview Series #14 with Grant Fritchey
Sunday, October 31, 2010 is Halloween, and in the spirit of the holiday of ghosts, goblins, vampires, werewolves, witches and...
2010-10-29
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Warning: Two Way Traffic
I saw this at the college where we held SQLSaturday #49 on the restroom door. I’m not sure what to...
2010-10-29
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Why You Should Vote for My SQLRally Pre-Con
Self-marketing is not my strong suit. I don't feel very comfortable doing it, but Andy Warren (twitter | blog) suggests that we...
2010-10-29
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WorldWide Online Tech Day 2010
Hate to post this late but just wanted to let everyone know I’ll be presenting for Brazil’s Worldwide Online Tech...
2010-10-29
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Adding Data Compression to an Existing Clustered Index in SQL Server 2008 R2
Working at an ISV like NewsGator Technologies, I get to work on products like Social Sites for SharePoint 2010, that...
2010-10-28
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Bulk Insert Permissions
In order to be able to execute bulk operations you need to certain level of privilege both on the database...
2010-10-28
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Creating Analysis Services Partitions Using BIDS
As your database grows in size, Analysis Services cubes that use that database grow along with it. As such, one...
2010-10-28
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems, Understanding Reliability and Performance
Solid state storage has come on strong in the last year. With that explosion of new products it can be...
2010-10-28
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Fundamentals of Storage Systems, Understanding Reliability and Performance of Solid State Storage
Solid state storage has come on strong in the last year. With that explosion of new products it can be...
2010-10-28
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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
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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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