The Tweetup
An interesting experiment from Microsoft tonight. They brought 8 or 9 bloggers/press people from around the country to Redmond for...
2010-04-09
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Blog Posts
Thoughts on ORM
I’ve posted before about issues I’m having either with behaviors of nHibernate, or behaviors of teams using nHibernate, but I...
2010-04-09
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A 96 hour meeting
I didn’t think about it this way, but it made perfect sense after I read an essay. Recently my team...
2010-04-08
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A DMV a Day – Day 8
We have two related DMVs for Day 8. The first one is sys.dm_fts_active_catalogs, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information...
2010-04-08
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A Good Expansion on the Topic of Plagiarism
In a previous post I gave some links which help explain what plagiarism is and how to generally avoid it....
2010-04-08
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Data-Driven Subscriptions at OPASS
Six months ago, I spoke at a SQLSaturday in Orlando, Florida. I had a great time. Andy Warren (Blog | Twitter),...
2010-04-08
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Early Planning for SQLSaturday Orlando 2010
I did an hour or so call with Jack Corbett recently to review what we hope to accomplish this year....
2010-04-08
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Q1 - review
I didn’t post my professional goals for the year on my blog at the start of this year, my blog...
2010-04-08
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Spring Training 2010
Life was busier than I would have liked this year, but made it to one game, Braves vs Tigers, for...
2010-04-08
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SQL University Starting Back Up
Jorge Segarra's ( @SQLChicken) excellent community idea, SQL University, is starting back up next week. This is effectively free training on...
2010-04-08
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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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