Minimalist Design - Part 2
Minimalist design can easily be confused with laziness, and also sometimes hard to tell the difference between minimalist and downright...
2009-04-07
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Blog Posts
Never Delete Data
Should you ever delete data? In a production environment, do the benefits of deleting old data outweigh the possible risks?
Data...
2009-04-07
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The Data Janitor
I was joking with Buck Woody on Facebook the other day and he mentioned he’d been a data janitor at...
2009-04-07
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Data Type Conversions
Lately I’ve gotten a lot of questions submitted to SQLServerCentral that have dealt with weird data type issues. We had...
2009-04-06
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LinkedIn - Part 3
As I've covered in my two earlier posts I've been investing a little time to figure out how to make...
2009-04-06
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New SSIS Book to be Released
If you've noticed a significant drop in my blogging I apoligize but I've been working on an exciting project with...
2009-04-06
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Dealing with Difficult Forum Users - The Flip Side
Earlier I talked about dealing with the difficult forum user from the perspective of providing help. Now let us look...
2009-04-05
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It’s all magic to me.
Technorati Tags: SQL Server,I/O"Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who do not understand it."
freefall
Arthur C. Clarke...
2009-04-05
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Measuring the Impact of Task Switching/Multitasking
Many of us make a living by working on tasks while monitoring email, taking a few calls, and in non...
2009-04-05
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Prius Repair #1
I’m aborting for now. I think I could replace the seat belts, but I don’t have the right part at...
2009-04-05
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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
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
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...
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