Understanding Microsoft Licenses - A Short Follow Up
I posted Do You Understand Microsoft Licenses about a week ago, and today happened to run across a note about...
2008-10-20
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Blog Posts
Who Wants to Be Rich
Late in getting this one out there, but it's interesting to see people's responses. Especially to my story.
As a kid...
2008-10-20
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"To Lead Is To Follow"
I first ran across these words as a Citadel cadet. Now those who know of my days at El Cid...
2008-10-19
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Final Preparations for SQLSaturday #8 on October 25th, 2008
I suspect final preparations will stretch all the way through next Saturday morning, but at this point we've done most...
2008-10-19
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Run Your Business as a Business
I’ve thought this for a long time: you need to run your business as a business, not an investment. Too...
2008-10-19
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Speaking in West Palm Beach and Orlando
I have two speaking engagements for the week of October 19:
South Florida SQL Server User Group - West Palm Beach - October...
2008-10-18
691 reads
The Financial Crisis - Why Did I Write This?
I've had a bunch of writings based on finances over the last couple weeks, and I've tried to spread them...
2008-10-17
658 reads
When Do You Know That You Know
Why, when you can help others, that's when!
In my role as a senior Moderator with the MSDN SQL Forums, I am often...
2008-10-17
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How Many Drive Letters Do You Use for SQL Server?
I was teaching a private class recently that had both DBA's and network types in the room, one of the...
2008-10-16
820 reads
Uninstalling Software (Sucks) and Why Computers Are Still Slow
I've just recently acquired a new laptop and my resolution is to install no software on it that I'm not...
2008-10-16
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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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