Good Seeing
I just finished reading The Perfect Machine about the construction of the Hale Telescope at Mount Palomar (here is a pretty...
2018-05-08
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SQLAndy
Notes from SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2018
Notes:
Great attendance, easily 400+Lunch was smooth this year due to changing to boxed lunchesRooms were in 2 different buildings. Sometimes...
2018-05-07
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Benefits for Veterans
Wanted to share a few things I came across recently with regards to benefits for veterans:
You can get a printed...
2018-04-25
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Custard Indexes
Not sure how or why this popped into my head (and too late for April Fools!), but it amuses me...
2018-04-13
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Farewell, Robert Davis
Robert Davis (@SQLSoldier) died on Monday. A great technical guy, he did a lot of writing and presenting and answering...
2018-04-13 (first published: 2018-04-04)
3,121 reads
Jacksonville, South Florida, and Houston
Just crossed off my quarterly goal of planning SQLSaturday attendance for the next quarter (I’m writing this on March 31st!)....
2018-04-02
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Thursday Night at the PASS Summit
It’s early days for thinking about the Summit, but as I wrote the post for yesterday about not submitting I...
2018-03-30
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No Summit Submission This Year
I had three ideas I considered submitting this year:
Devops for the DBASQL ChecklistsLearning Plans v2I’ve presented the first topic a...
2018-03-29
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SQLSaturday Orlando 2018 – Planned for October 6
Just a quick note that we’ve reserved the date for our 12th SQLSaturday here in Orlando. It will be held...
2018-03-28
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Parsing the PASS Blog Posts about FY 19 and SQLSaturday
In February PASS President Grant Fritchey posted PASS Priorities FY 19 followed by An Open Letter to SQLSaturday Organizers, and then held...
2018-03-30 (first published: 2018-03-27)
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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
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item When SQL Server Central Went...
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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