SQL Saturday #28 Update
We are just about a week away from probably the biggest FREE training event to ever take place in Baton...
2010-08-06
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Blog Posts
The Inteview is Done
I completed my interview for the PASS board election today. I don’t want to talk about what was in the...
2010-08-06
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Tiny Homes
Over the course of my life I’ve lived in a few different places; small home, apartment, pup tent, large tent,...
2010-08-06
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Windows Azure Platform One Month Pass
According to all of their public pronouncements and the flurry of recent activity, Microsoft seems extremely serious about Windows Azure...
2010-08-06
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GTD: Emergency Scanning versus Processing
Cross-posted from The Goal Keeping DBA blog.
I'm making an earnest effort to work through Getting Things Done in an effort...
2010-08-05
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Middle of the Pack
I noticed the scores for the first part of the PASS nomination process were posted recently. These were the aggregate...
2010-08-05
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Midlands PASS Meeting - August 10
Topic: Creating a SQL Server Utility Environment
Can SQL Server be offered as a service (SQLaaS)? Can SQL Server be treated like...
2010-08-05
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Notes on Mentoring
Being a good mentor is hard, perhaps harder than being a parent, because with children it’s fair to share with...
2010-08-05
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SQL Lunch #26 Analysis Services Security
Today at 12:30 EST I will be presenting for SQL Lunch on the topic of Analysis Services Security. Make sure to be...
2010-08-05
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SQL Saturday # 28 in Baton Rouge, Saturday Aug 14th, looks to be one of the best events of the year.
If you are looking for a rewarding way to spend next Saturday, August 14th 2010, do yourself a favour and...
2010-08-05
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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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