As a PASS Member, Don’t Forget to Vote in the 2010 PASS Board Elections
I just received my e-mail from PASS, which says, “As a PASS Member in Good Standing, you are entitled to...
2010-09-01
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Blog Posts
Book Review: Crunch Time
About a month ago I went to Barnes & Noble to pick up a copy of Seth Godin’s book, Tribes: We...
2010-09-01
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Common SQL Server Mistakes - SELECT *
I’ve been trying to work on some new presentations so that I have a variety, including some spares, when I...
2010-09-01
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Creating a PerformancePoint 2010 Data Source
In a previous post I wrote about getting started with PerformancePoint 2010.In that post you learned about what PerformancePoint is...
2010-09-01
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For SQL Server 2005/2008, Consider SecurityAdmin = SysAdmin
Note: Republishing because the article covering the issue and a workaround has been published here on SSC.
In a recent thread...
2010-09-01
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Naming Keys & Constraints
G'day,
This is pretty much my first blog post - at least on sqlservercentral.com - so to get started I thought that I'd...
2010-09-01
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Notes on Jacksonville Code Camp 2010
Overall it was a great event, attendance in the 350-400 range. Boxed lunches instead of pizza (good!), not much in...
2010-09-01
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Retrieving Report Names for SSRS Subscription Jobs
The way Reporting Services creates subscriptions is through generating a SQL Server Agent job. This is apparent when you look...
2010-09-01
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September Question: What feature is missing from SQL Server that you would most like to see included in the next release?
Post your responses to the above SQL Aloha Question of the Month in the comments section below (at www.bradmcgehee.com if...
2010-09-01
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SQLSaturday SLC 2010
Well, I have taken another plunge. I finally got around to submitting a session for SQL Saturday Salt Lake City...
2010-09-01
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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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