Spend Money to Make Money
One of those old sayings that has a grain or two of truth to it. Stocks, real estate, education even,...
2008-11-25
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Blog Posts
The Advantage of Seattle - Where to host the PASS Community Summit
I heard during last week that the 2009 PASS Community Summit will be back in Seattle, on Nov 3-6 next...
2008-11-25
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Digging into Replication
It's fun to read good work, and my friend Kendal Van Dyke recently posted How CommitBatchSize And CommitBatchThreshold Affect Replication....
2008-11-24
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Immersed in work, and missing out on everything else
After 2 years working on a data conversion and software implementation project, I’ve finally started to get caught up on...
2008-11-24
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Looking Back at the PASS 2008 Summit
I definitely need to write up a few summaries about last week, but right now I'm a bit buried with...
2008-11-24
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Post PASS Summit 2008
So now that PASS is over and life is getting back to normal I thought it would share my final...
2008-11-24
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Raising the Bar
Turning up the heat. Take it up a notch. Stepping up to the plate. Less talk, more action.
However you choose...
2008-11-24
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PASS Day 5 (Fri)
Friday I was up early for breakfast and check out of the hotel, then down to the convention center to...
2008-11-23
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SQLSaturday #8 Session Evaluations
Session evaluations are one real benefit that speakers derive from participating in community events - a chance to see how they...
2008-11-23
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The Need to Catch Up
I got back Friday afternoon from the PASS Summit and immediately was busy with family stuff. In fact, through Saturday...
2008-11-23
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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