Hello GETDATE() My Old Friend...
So you’ve decided that your new web application needs to record some page load time metrics so you can keep tabs on performance. Terrific! You set up a couple page load/complete...
2015-06-16
5 reads
FLX SQL
Getting Over It or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Speaking
Consider this the outtakes from my previous post about speaking at SQL Saturday.
It took a while for me to build up the courage to finally get up in the...
2015-06-02
6 reads
I Spoke at SQLSat (and I Liked It)
That is the first and last Katy Perry reference you will find on this blog or anywhere else in my life.
Last weekend I spoke at the 4th edition of my “home”...
2015-05-22
3 reads
Slides & demos from SQL Saturday Rochester
Slides & demos from my SQL Saturday Rochester presentation “Easing into Scripting with Windows PowerShell” have been posted on the SQL Saturday site.
Thank you to everyone who came out for...
2015-05-19
2 reads
Speaking at SQL Saturday Rochester this weekend!
I’ll be presenting my session Easing into Scripting with Windows PowerShell this Saturday, May 16th at SQL Saturday Rochester.
SQL Saturday is a free, all-day event for learning about SQL Server and...
2015-05-15
2 reads
SQL New Blogger Challenge Digest - Week 4
This week marks the end of Ed Leighton-Dick’s New Blogger Challenge. It’s terrific seeing everyone sticking with the challenge all month and I’m looking forward to catching up with all the...
2015-05-01
2 reads
Are You Backing Everything Up?
We hear the common refrain among DBAs all the time. Back up your data! Test your restores! If you can’t restore the backup, it’s worthless. And yes, absolutely, you...
2015-04-29
3 reads
SQL New Blogger Digest - Week 3
Here are the posts collected from week three of the SQL New Blogger Challenge. It’s been compiled the same way previous weeks’ posts were. Everyone’s doing a great job keeping up...
2015-04-24
5 reads
Padding Fields for Fixed-Position Data Formats
Fixed-position data formats will seemingly be with us forever. Despite the relative ease of parsing CSV (or other delimited formats), or even XML, many data exchanges require a fixed-position...
2015-04-22
6 reads
SQL New Blogger Digest - Week 2
I didn’t intend for last week’s digest to also be my post for week two of the challenge, but life got in the way and I wasn’t able to...
2015-04-15
4 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
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
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The String Distance I
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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('tim', 'tom')
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