Why Read?
I love to read. Like my friend, Paul Randal (blog, @PaulRandal), I read a lot of books every year, usually...
2010-10-01
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Blog Posts
Be Thorough When Making Schema Changes
This morning we made some changes to the database. We realized that as part of a re-factor we needed to...
2010-09-30
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Cleaning up excess contiguous spaces in strings. A mystery.
/* Have you ever come across the problem where you have to remove spaces from a string that has too many?...
2010-09-30
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Dear Users…Sincerely, Your IT Guys
Dear Users,
We, the tech people, understand that you just want technology to work so you can get your jobs done. ...
2010-09-30
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Geekbench 2.1.7 Released
If you read my blog or follow me on Twitter, you know that I have a strong interest in database...
2010-09-30
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No Guarantees
The keynote for SQL Saturday #52 in Denver, that didn’t go as smoothly as I’d like due to technical difficulties,...
2010-09-30
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PASS Summit Schedule
Earlier this week, PASS opened up the Schedule Builder for the those that are registered for the PASS Summit. You...
2010-09-30
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Revisiting The West Wing
Sometimes spending some time with your spouse watching TV is right up there with comfort food, the challenge is often...
2010-09-30
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SQL Saturday 52 Recap
I spent this past weekend traveling to and attending SQL Saturday Colorado in the outskirts of Denver. This was the...
2010-09-30
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SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Released
Some of my clients and I have been waiting on this for a little while – SQL Server 2008 Service Pack...
2010-09-30
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Blogs
Questions and Answers from Running a Local LLM
By Steve Jones
I had a few random questions from my Running a Local LLM on Your...
Overview of Claude AI Models: Which One to Choose?
By Arun Sirpal
For those entering the AI space whether professionally or personally I wanted to give...
Houston AI-Lytics 2026–Powerpoint Slides
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone for attending my session on running a Local LLM. If you...
Forums
A question about how to store the address in the database
I have an app that has an address field on the customer and the...
SSIS package failing intermittently on last Excel Component
Good Afternoon, I have a Job which "fires" off an SSIS package (that is...
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: JSON_ARRAYAGG
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...
Question of the Day
Multiple Sequence Values
How do I easily get the next 12 sequence values from a sequence object?
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