Learn How Vendors Price Their Software
As DBAs, we are often put in the position of purchasing software from third-party vendors. If you are like me,...
2010-04-09
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Blog Posts
Prius Update – Three Years In
I’ve had the Prius for 3 years as of Mar 31, 2010, and it’s been a great car for us....
2010-04-09
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Reporting Services 2008 R2 KPI Ready
As I begin to explore more and more of the new feature that will be available in SQL Server 2008...
2010-04-09
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S3OLV April Meeting Recap
We held our meeting last night and had a good time. Thanks to those that were able to make it...
2010-04-09
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Script to Create A TempDB File Per Processor
Introduction
Trying to keep the streak alive so here is my 5th blog post in 5 days. This one is another...
2010-04-09
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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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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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Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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