Help Me Name My New Blog
I am in the process of creating a new blog, but I am having difficulty coming up with a good...
2009-07-15
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Blog Posts
July OPASS Meeting Recap
Last night I attended, along with about 20 others, the latest and greatest OPASS meeting. I got there early to...
2009-07-15
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Off Topic – Why I’m unclebiguns on Twitter
There may be some people wondering why I go by the name @unclebiguns on Twitter. I am basing this on...
2009-07-15
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Rant: Updating Application Databases the Right Way
Recently, a fellow DBA showed me a set of documentation on a commercially available product. This is a product people...
2009-07-15
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Upgrade Your Laptop to Solid State Drive
Saw an announcement in Eweek about this, so went looking and found this review of the Imation SSD Upgrade Kit....
2009-07-15
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2009-07-15
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I am a Champion for Canada, et Le Québec est Inclus dans Mon Pays
After reading several pages of comments on this posting, I'm taking a stab at helping Canadian Unity on my beloved...
2009-07-14
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Is It Time for Wider Websites?
I ran across this post about time to move beyond 960 where it talks about most websites today are designed...
2009-07-14
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Orlando SQL Server User Group Meeting is Tonight
Chad Miller will be doing a presentation on Powershell and we’ll have our usually round table discussion afterward – often the...
2009-07-14
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SQL Quiz #4 - Leadership
Chris Shaw posts SQL quiz #4, I make an observation on Twitter about who gets tagged, Brent Ozar tags me...
2009-07-14
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Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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