PASS FY2019 Budget Notes Updated
PASS has updated the notes supporting the FY 2019 budget to answer the questions I raised in my earlier post....
2018-09-10
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SQLAndy
Looking at the PASS FY 2019 Budget
I just spent a few more minutes looking at the FY 2019 budget. It is hard to assess whether it’s...
2018-09-14 (first published: 2018-09-04)
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Volunteer for the PASS NomCom
The call for applications for the Nominating Committee closes on Sep 10th. If you care about the future of PASS...
2018-09-04
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More on Two Posts About PASS
Yesterday I linked to two really interesting posts about PASS and I hope you read them. I’ll start with a...
2018-08-28
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Two Posts About PASS
I’m a little late getting to this, but I think both of these are worth reading:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-letter-pass-group-leaders-sql-saturday-steve-rezhener-mba/https://medium.com/@SteffLocke/sqlsaturdays-shouldnt-give-up-pass-money-a478a97ee0c7Suggest you post any thoughts...
2018-08-27
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The Failed One Laptop Per Child Project
I wrote about OLPC back in 2010 (and before that, somewhere back on a post I didnt port over here...
2018-07-30
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Zero Width Characters
Another bit of miscellany, this one shows how you can use zero width characters to tag/fingerprint data. Reminds me of...
2018-07-23
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Paper Model of Hubble Telescope
Not even close to being about SQL, I ran across the plans for a paper model of the Hubble Telescope while...
2018-08-03 (first published: 2018-07-20)
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Getting Schooled by Brent
Earlier this year Brent Ozar invited me to attend some of his online classes for free. Free is good! Training...
2018-07-27 (first published: 2018-07-19)
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SQL Solver
A few months back I ran across this article for checking semantic equivalencies of queries. That’s interesting, from the perspective...
2018-07-19
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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...
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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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