Done and Out
for a week. I'm leaving for vacation and leaving SQLServerCentral.com
in the capable hands of Andy. He'll be sending out some...
2005-07-15
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Blog Posts
SQL PASS Chapter in South Carolina
If you are interested in helping to organize or be a part of an
official Professional Association of SQL Server chapter...
2005-07-15
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Memory Leak
A couple of days ago I noticed that the index rebuild for the search
engine was failing at night. In line...
2005-07-14
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Reboot
Apologies, a minor reboot of the db server this morning. Somewhere we're leaking memory, more details later, so I had...
2005-07-14
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RunAs
When I started working at JD Edwards, I was a corporate administrator
on the windows network. Since the DBAs were a...
2005-07-12
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It's always something
As Phill posts in his blog, we've had a couple interesting threads in the forums where the respect and tolerance...
2005-07-11
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This is lovely
I got a note that someone thought they shouldn't have to register on
the site and get a newsletter to read...
2005-07-07
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What Is Really Interesting?
When I wrote the editorial for today on A Humbling Experience,
I was sure that it would generate a bunch of...
2005-07-07
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Interviewing a DBA
Andy and I had an interesting question on this today. He's trying to
hire a DBA and he had his first...
2005-07-05
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To Blog or Not To Blog
Blogging seemed like a big deal in 2004. At the 2003 PASS Summit, we were told by Microsoft that they...
2005-06-29
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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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