Know Your Equipment
Today I ran to the co-location facility for FourDeuce and End to End Training, to upgrade our database server to...
2008-06-05
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Blog Posts
A New Logo
For SQL Server, it's coming soon. Surprisingly, when I was up in Redmond, quite a few people were asking about...
2008-06-04
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Data Loss Mailing List and Database
The folks at attrition.org have been stalwarts in providing information to the security community for ages, it seems. I first...
2008-06-04
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Notes from the June 2008 oPASS Meeting
Our main presentation was on 'Unlocking the Power of SQL Compact' by Steve Lasker & Ginny Caughey. Went better than I expected...
2008-06-04
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Security by Obscurity?
Andy Warren points to a TechNet article about Security by Obscurity and wanted me to post some notes. Let's start...
2008-06-04
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Managing Money
First, the usual disclaimer: I'm not a financial professional, so take all of the following with a grain of salt...
2008-06-03
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Replication Error "field size too large"
Yesterday, I was fighting with an error I have never seen in the replication and not much info can be obtained via...
2008-06-03
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World Wild Telescope & Misc Microsoft Stuff
Just took a look at the World Wild Telescope and it looks interesting, perhaps just as importantly looks cool! Don't...
2008-06-03
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DIY
Last month the LCD screen on our treadmill went out. We bought it last Christmas (06) as a present for...
2008-06-02
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Reminder - SQLSaturday #4 in Orlando June 7-8, 2008
Last call! We've got a 2 day event running this time. Saturday is the more traditional (it's only #4 after...
2008-06-02
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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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