SQL Quiz: Two Mistakes
I was tagged by Gail Shaw to post two big mistakes made during my professional career. The only challenge here...
2008-12-18
830 reads
Blog Posts
The December Car Update
I missed the November Car update, but I was too busy with the PASS Summit to get one done.
However last...
2008-12-18
663 reads
A Week of Books - Part 3
I'm still finishing up two books that I'll mention today. Most non-technical books I read straight through, anything technical/learning based...
2008-12-17
540 reads
A Week of Books - Part 4
Magazines today instead of books, but hopefully you'll count that as close enough to my theme of the week. I...
2008-12-17
539 reads
Dos and Don'ts for Projecting a Professional Image on the Internet
In a previous blog post, I suggested that less than professional content, that you or others post on the Internet...
2008-12-17
1,162 reads
Is Your Internet Activity Hurting Your DBA Career?
I have been active on the Internet for 15 years, and during that time I have left a long trail...
2008-12-17
1,067 reads
Jumpstart TV SQL Server security videos on-line
Back in October I had the opportunity to work with Andy Warren and do a series of SQL Server security...
2008-12-17
1,400 reads
Microsoft’s First iPhone Application
Can you believe it? Microsoft has just released an iPhone application for the first time and I doubt it will...
2008-12-17
2,051 reads
The Best Thing About The Kindle
You might think it's the e-ink screen. It's not.
You might think it's the ability to carry around hundreds of books...
2008-12-17
860 reads
Investing In Your Career
I saw this blog from Jeffrey Yao on investing in your career, and thought it would be a great editorial....
2008-12-16
817 reads
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
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SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
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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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