Motivational Monday – 8/9/10
This week it's all about speed. Many thing in life are drive n by how fast we can get them...
2010-08-19
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Blog Posts
Neat script to monitor activity
Scouring the web this week, I stumbled across SQL Server MVP Adam Mechanics and his script :-
Who is Active?
Its basically a...
2010-08-19
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Newest Pragmatic Works’ Team Book on Amazon
Check out our latest book on Amazon. It’s not for sales yet, but just seeing the title up there is...
2010-08-19
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SQL Saturday 40 – Behind the SQL
Ok folks, the video from SQL Saturday 40 is finally up. Thanks to the sponsors who helped foot the bill...
2010-08-19
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SQL Saturday 40 Recap
Well SQL Saturday here in South Florida was QUITE an event this past weekend. We had over 400+ attendees and...
2010-08-19
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SQL Saturday Advice – Feedback and Raffles
At SQL Saturday #28, I was surprised to be given the speaker evaluations after my first session. One of the...
2010-08-19
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SQL Server Browser Service
One of the most common questions I get from folks during out quickstart engagements is around a new service in...
2010-08-19
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Stapler Method
This is long overdue and goes out to my buddies from the SSAS Class I taught late last year. Two...
2010-08-19
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Thoughts On The 2010 PASS BoD Elections Candidate List
Yesterday PASS published the list of candidates on the ballot for the 2010 Board of Directors election. Much to my...
2010-08-19
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Undocumented Stored Procedures
Just a quick list of undocumented SPs, many of which are deprecated.
Note, use caution using some of these ! But others...
2010-08-19
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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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