Create your own SQL Tools with PowerShell and Windows Forms
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Check out a new blogger who is sharing secrets of the DBA world. In his first post, James shows us...
2014-12-09 (first published: 2014-12-03)
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DataOnWheels
Power Testing ETL with Power BI – Creating the Tests with Power Pivot
This is the second deep dive into Power Testing ETL with Power BI. At this point, we have created the...
2014-11-13
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Power Testing ETL with Power BI – Shaping The Data with Power Query and Power Pivot
This blog post digs into the details of shaping the data with Power Query and Power Pivot in order to...
2014-11-19 (first published: 2014-11-12)
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Power Testing ETL with Power BI – The Process
This is a short blog series on using Power BI tools to support testing ETL processes. I have presented on...
2014-11-11
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Creating a SharePoint Server Farm on Azure from the Gallery
As many of you know creating a SharePoint farm for testing can be a daunting task. I volunteered to help...
2014-10-16
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Lync 2013 Video Issues on Windows 8
Part of the reason I have a blog is to document issues and resolutions I do not want to forget....
2014-10-15
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2014-10-09
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The Only Constant Is Change
In March of this year, I celebrated 10 years at Magenic. I blogged about it and called out values and...
2014-10-05
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T-SQL Window Functions – Part 4: Analytic Functions
This is a reprint with some revisions of a series I originally published on LessThanDot. You can find the links...
2014-07-24 (first published: 2014-07-17)
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T-SQL Window Functions – Part 3: Aggregate Functions
This is a reprint with some revisions of a series I originally published on LessThanDot. You can find the links...
2014-07-07
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Blogs
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
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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
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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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