An Update on My Dell E6500
I bought my E6500 almost three years ago, giving away what was a perfectly good Latitude to trade up to...
2011-06-17
559 reads
SQLAndy
Used Book Stores and Vacation Reading
I took a vacation recently (well, a really long weekend) and as I like to do, visited a few book...
2011-06-16
671 reads
PASS Update #57-Board Benefits, Travel, and Meetings
From time to time I get asked about how PASS Board members are compensated, so I thought it would make...
2011-06-15
687 reads
Hash Tag Art
I haven’t tried this, but run across a reference to hashtagart that looks pretty interesting as a way to use...
2011-06-14
628 reads
PASS Update #56-SQLRally 2012 Site Selection
Note: This is a good, bad, and ugly post. We took some chances, got some things right, got more than...
2011-06-13
988 reads
Book Review: Make the Impossible Possible: One Man”s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
I finished reading Make the Impossible Possible: One Man”s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary...
2011-06-10
790 reads
What Color Were You On Today?
The school my daughter attends gives each student a workbook type thing at the beginning of each year, and it...
2011-06-09
600 reads
Another Idea for SQLSaturday
I spend a lot of time just looking at events, watching for new ideas. At our recent SQLRally we had...
2011-06-07
639 reads
Just Deserts
Here’s another photo from my phone, this one from SQLSaturday Tampa in the cafeteria area. An easy typo to make,...
2011-06-02
604 reads
An Unexpected Service Gotcha
Recently I was participating in a round of storage rearranging with a client (aka the storage dance) which consisted of...
2011-05-31
1,554 reads
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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