What's Your Job Title?
As I travel and visit DBAs from around the United States, I am always surprised at the job titles DBA...
2008-10-16
637 reads
Blog Posts
Big and Small - Why Did I Write This?
I've always been very concerned about where I work. Well, maybe not always, since early in my career I took...
2008-10-15
630 reads
Looking for Free Educational Events to Attend?
Every week, there are dozen of free educational events to attend throughout the United States. The sad part is that...
2008-10-15
624 reads
Financial Trust
I’m sure that the people at Mint and Thrive have people’s best interests at heart. They built services designed to...
2008-10-14
949 reads
Flyclear Revisited
Back in May I wrote about signing up for FlyClear as a way to save time travelling and in doing so,...
2008-10-14
519 reads
Too Good at Data Analysis - Why Did I Write This?
The past few weeks have been a rough one all around the globe as economies aren't doing well. I studied...
2008-10-14
603 reads
Back to 400
I had to research a bit, write some code, and look up things to answer questions this morning. I must...
2008-10-13
699 reads
Data Farming - Why Did I Write This?
I grew up in the Cold War, with real concern that the Russians would attack us someday. I wanted to...
2008-10-13
813 reads
Double Posting
I think that it’s a great idea to keep a few blogs going, and separate out your thoughts in different...
2008-10-13
633 reads
LiveWriter
I’ve been experimenting a bit in the blogging world, setting up a few blog accounts and trying different services. I...
2008-10-13
633 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
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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