The Wise Old Man Part 4
In my previous posts The Wise Old Man Part 1, The Wise Old Man Part 2 and The Wise Old...
2008-11-05
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Blog Posts
Participation
With a large election year in the US (President + all the other races), I've been more interested than in some...
2008-11-04
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PASS Board of Directors, Part 2
A couple weeks ago I wrote about trying to decide whether to run for the PASS board. I talked about...
2008-11-04
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Election Day & Love of Country
I'm not trying to talk politics here, but I don't want to be so politically correct that I avoid important...
2008-11-03
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Microsoft Launches SQLServerEnergy.Com
Microsoft has launched a new SQL Server 2008 marketing-related website at www.sqlserverenergy.com. It is available in 11 languages, and offers...
2008-11-03
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Midlands PASS Chapter Meeting - November 6, 2008
Speaker: Brian Kelley
Midlands PASS Chapter - November 6, 2008 Meeting
Sponsored by Red Gate Software
The Midlands PASS chapter will hold our normally...
2008-11-03
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Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Administration
When I came home from work tonight, there waiting on my was my copy of Professional Microsoft SQL Server 2008...
2008-11-03
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Sniffing out bogus data
/* Imagine that you have some names and addresses. You are anxious to look at the addresses that may be spurious....
2008-11-03
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The Wise Old Man Part 3
In my previous posts The Wise Old Man Part 1 and The Wise Old Man Part 2 I wrote about...
2008-11-03
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DBA and Doctor
I always feel it is harder to be a DBA than to be a doctor while we are doing almost...
2008-11-02
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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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