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We had a blizzard on Tuesday in Denver. Apr 24 and we got nearly a foot of snow out at...
2007-04-25
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Blog Posts
Keeping Skills Up-to-Date and Discoverability
One thing is always certain about information technology: there is always change. This past week I was pitching in on...
2007-04-23
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Book: Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard
I just finished the book Brute
Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard by Matt Curtin. It covers the work of...
2007-04-16
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Midlands PASS - April 5, 2007 Presentation posted
The presentation How to Be a Consultant has been posted to the Midlands PASS Chapter website. The presentation was given...
2007-04-15
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Not 4GB
Windows doesn't see 4GB. If you have a 32bit OS with 4GB of RAM, Windows can't see it all.
I saw...
2007-04-13
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Post SP2 Fixes
I saw Brian's post on Microsoft's post on post sp2-fixes. Say that 10 times quickly.
They do a good job explaining...
2007-04-13
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New Tool: ApexSQL Audit Viewer
ApexSQL has announced a new viewer tool for ApexSQL Audit. ApexSQL Audit does a lot of the dirty work of...
2007-04-11
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The Final Word on SQL Server 2005 SP2?
Bob Ward posted on the PSS SQL Server Engineers blog a fairly long post on SP2 and the hotfixes thereafter:...
2007-04-11
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Thoughts from Never Eat Alone
Watching a Chefograpy on Giada De Laurentiis, I learned that she was considered very much an introvert and had a...
2007-04-10
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Help Johnny, Help Kids
I had heard of Johnny Long before I attended his briefing at Black Hat 2004. Well known for his research...
2007-04-09
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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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