The Podcastee
Usually I'm the one working on my podcasts and starring in them. However I got invited to participate in and...
2007-12-18
1,433 reads
Blog Posts
User Group Meeting Checklist
I'm a fan of lists so that I stay on track rather than trying to remember all things at the...
2007-12-18
1,413 reads
Strategic vs Tactical Time
As an owner of a small business one of the constant struggles is time management, and more importantly, finding time...
2007-12-17
1,486 reads
Turning Off Logging
I'm sure that most of you know that you cannot turn off logging in SQL Server. You can minimize the...
2007-12-17
1,435 reads
Google Knol As Community Competitor?
I ran across this in the Google bloghttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html announcing a new beta feature called Knol that allows an author to...
2007-12-14
1,670 reads
Lists of Tools
I ran across this list of interesting tools by Scott Hanselman and there is some good stuff to look at...
2007-12-14
1,360 reads
12000!
A short congratulations to myself. I was answering posts last night after tech editing another chapter of the book I'm...
2007-12-12
1,472 reads
Finding the relationship of a filegroup and a partition
The other day, I was trying to find out which partition is on which filegroup for a a partitioned table....
2007-12-12
1,585 reads
Driving Debate
I write a daily editorial, which is one of the reasons that I don't post here as often as I'd...
2007-12-11
1,395 reads
Managing Funds for User Groups
This question seems to come up a lot and it's worth discussing. Few user groups are incorporated, fewer still are...
2007-12-11
635 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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