Android v Windows Mobile
I’ve had a number of cell phones in my life, probably more than many people. Typically I’ve just grabbed a...
2009-03-26
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Blog Posts
Featured Blog - Brian Kelley
My friend Brian writes Databases, Infrastructure, and Security and like me, he writes about an eclectic mix that goes beyond...
2009-03-26
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Gone Dark
This afternoon was quite interesting around the office. A strong thunderstorm moved through the area, a common occurrence in Texas...
2009-03-25
1,399 reads
How to Deal with the Difficult Forum User
It has happened to us all at one time or another. We are trying to help someone on an online...
2009-03-25
1,553 reads
Launch Replication Monitor Without SSMS
I manage a lot of replication publications\subscriptions and when I get a latency or agent failure alert it always bugs...
2009-03-25
847 reads
Minimalist Design
I'm been in tactical mode lately, building an advertising management system for one of our projects. Actually it's v2, the...
2009-03-25
1,607 reads
Some Common Date Routines
I'm sure that these routines are available in a variety of locations, this just adds one more place that people...
2009-03-25
39,383 reads
Touch Your Resume
One of the pieces of advice that I give in my talk "The Modern Resume" is that you should review,...
2009-03-25
1,599 reads
What a fortnight I had
This has been one of the most stressful fortnight in this company. I did not feel this stressed when our...
2009-03-25
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Ada Lovelace Day – Celebrating Women In Technology
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. I don't...
2009-03-24
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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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