Moving to Hyper-V
My primary development machine for the past 3 years was a 32 bit Toshiba Satellite notebook running XP named PROBE-DROID....
2009-06-04
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Blog Posts
My Latest Articles
A few weeks ago I mentioned my blog that I would have two articles published on sswug.org. Well, they have...
2009-06-04
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Off to SQLSaturday #14
I leave this afternoon for Pensacola and SQLSaturday #14. My daughter is traveling with me, for a short vacation with...
2009-06-04
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SQL Saturday 14 Pensacola
I will be speaking this Saturday at the SQL Saturday in Pensacola. The topic will be SSIS Best Practices and Performance Tuning. ...
2009-06-04
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SQLServerCentral.Com to Offer SQL Server Track at SQL Server Connections
I have spoken at many conferences over the years, including the PASS Community Summit and SQL Server Connections, and one...
2009-06-04
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The SQLServerCentral Track at SQL Connections
I'm happy to announce that SQLServerCentral is sponsoring a track at this year's SQL Connections conference in Las Vegas, Nov...
2009-06-04
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Tool Review: Bosch PS-40 10.8 Volt Impact Driver
A little further off topic than usual, but this is one of the few tools that I've purchased that I...
2009-06-04
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I Learned a New Word
Do you know what a Geoid is?
I’ve been working my way through Beginning Spatial with SQL Server 2008, actually “through”...
2009-06-03
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Scripting Our Daily (Professional) Lives
I talk a lot about scripting tasks on our servers to automate our regular processes, but in this case I'm...
2009-06-03
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Seatguru - Getting a Good Seat on the Plane
Ran across this a while back and just getting to it, Seatguru is a site that lets you figure out...
2009-06-03
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers