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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Blog Posts
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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How Many People Can a Manager Manage?
This question came up during lunch this past week, and it's a good question. I'll start with my stock 'It...
2008-11-02
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Timing is Everything
I got up this morning, wanting to go through the forums, check on Database Weekly, etc. as a Sunday morning...
2008-11-02
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Auditing for Blank Passwords
Auditing blank passwords in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 proves a bit more challenging than in SQL Server 2000. In...
2008-11-01
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SQL Server 2008 Data Compression Example
I was experimenting with the effects of row and page compression in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition.
First, I identified...
2008-10-31
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Follow Up to Blog Review Post
A month or so ago I posted Blog Review - Yours & Mine to see what I might get for feedback about...
2008-10-30
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Blogs
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...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Forums
Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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The String Distance I
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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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