Thinking about Pre-Cons In Orlando in 2019
In the spirit of “do more” we’re hoping to host at least 4 pre-cons in Orlando in 2019. Right now...
2018-11-27
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SQLAndy
Managing the Money for SQLOrlando
Part of the decision of setting up a non profit is committing to a bit more than minimal effort when...
2018-12-07 (first published: 2018-11-26)
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Notes From the 2018 PASS Summit (v20)
This was the 20th PASS Summit, a decent milestone! Interesting to pause and think, what will the Summit look like...
2018-11-12
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Reasons to Serve on the PASS Board of Directors
A few weeks back I wrote Some Thoughts on How To Prepare to Serve on the PASS Board of Directors....
2018-11-20 (first published: 2018-11-11)
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The No-Election PASS Election
I was disheartened to read the post that shows we have three candidates for three positions this year. Started with...
2018-11-02
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PASS Summit 2019 or Microsoft Ignite 2019?
It turns out that the 2019 Summit and Ignite will be held the same week in 2019, see this post...
2018-11-02 (first published: 2018-10-23)
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Some Thoughts on How to Prepare to Serve on the PASS Board of Directors
From time to time I’m asked for advice and insight on running for and serving on the PASS Board. I...
2018-10-22
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Notes from SQLSaturday #801 (2018)
We wrapped up our 12th SQLSaturday here in Orlando two weeks ago. Overall things went well. Registration was just a...
2018-10-20
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Notes from the September 2018 SQLOrlando Meetup
Notes:
30 registered, 11 attended. No weather or traffic issues. Same as the last meeting we did not send a day...
2018-09-25
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Apply for the 2019 Idera ACE Program
Sharing this before I forget, Idera is taking applications for their 2019 ACE Program. If you’re wanting to do more...
2018-09-19
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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
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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