Tour de Career: Prologue
Tour de Career
It’s July and for some that means baseball and bar-b-ques. For me it means my birthday and Tour...
2010-07-16
635 reads
Blog Posts
“One of the Pack to Top Dog”
My first guest editorial published !
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Editorial/70725/
Would appreciate any comments you have.
2010-07-15
579 reads
Curb those Cursors !
With query performance becoming a constant battle, its often a forgotten fact that cursors should be avoided (in the majority...
2010-07-15
683 reads
Defensive Db Programming Chapter 02
This is the review of the second chapter of the book Defensive Database Programming. The title of this chapter is...
2010-07-15
1,822 reads
Free SQL Server Training for the Week of July 19, 2010
This will start a new trend on my blog. Every Friday morning I'll have a blog post covering the free SQL...
2010-07-15
745 reads
Making Choices Narrows Your Remaining Options
I’ve had variations of this conversation a couple of times lately and thought it was worth writing down some thoughts....
2010-07-15
505 reads
MDX Puzzle #3 Solution
Download Script
Sorry that it’s taken me so long to write this post, but I have been a little busy with...
2010-07-15
691 reads
Pruning the Blog List
I went through the exercise months ago where I tried to re-organize my blog reading to be more efficient at...
2010-07-15
840 reads
Scanning Without Wires - Epson Workforce 610
We are trying to buy another property here at the ranch. My wife had to leave town in the middle...
2010-07-15
743 reads
SQL Saturday Advice - Build a Foundation
I think this is a good idea, and I’ll give you some reasons, but every SQL Saturday ought to consider...
2010-07-15
975 reads
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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