Leading Wildcards Aren’t A Good Default
SQL Server has LIKE, which lets us do various pattern matches, but most commonly we use the percent side as...
2011-03-05
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SQLAndy
Presenting in West Palm Beach on March 22, 2011
I’m pleased to be joining the West Palm Beach .Net group on March 22 to do a presentation on SQL...
2011-03-04
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The Power And Pain of Process–Part 1
Part of why I love IT is finding patterns and creating new ones. Patterns by themselves are interesting, but when...
2011-03-04
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Firefox and NTLM Authentication
By default Firefox doesn’t pass through NT credentials, not a big deal when you’re browsing Amazon by a big pain...
2011-03-01
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JTDS & Grails
Recently I had the chance to do some tuning on a system that was built using Grails (formerly Groovy on...
2011-02-28
2,477 reads
PASS Update #53 (Bylaws)
This week we posted some pending changes to the PASS bylaws. We try to do a review at least once...
2011-02-25
1,565 reads
A Plug for Wirefly
Wirefly is a website devoted to purchasing cell phones and plans. I found it when I was researching my Droid...
2011-02-22
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What Should PASS Be? I Challenge You
PASS isn’t what it should be. I hear that a lot, and in many ways I agree with you. We’re...
2011-02-18
555 reads
Notes from the February 2011 MagicPASS Meeting
I attended the second meeting of MagicPASS (no web site yet) on Feb 16 at Stetson University in Celebration, FL....
2011-02-18
553 reads
Who Is This Super Hero?
We recently switched from Brighthouse to DirectTV and of the first things we did was to find the kids channels...
2011-02-17
562 reads
Blogs
Self-Hosting a Photo Server the Whole Family Can Use
By Bert Wagner
Until recently, my family's 90,000+ photos have been hidden away in the depths of...
Start with the FabricTools PowerShell module
By Kamil
Managing Microsoft Fabric at scale quickly becomes painful if you rely only on the...
Enterprise AI Operating Rhythm – Top 5 practices for 2026
2025 exposed a growing gap between AI ambition and operational reality. As budgets tightened...
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Celebrating Tomorrow
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