Configuring KDIFF With GitHub
Posting this mostly in case I need it again. I needed a merge tool for Git, Kdiff is free and...
2017-04-12 (first published: 2017-03-23)
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SQLAndy
The PASS Executive Committee
I was just reading The PASS Board Guidance Policy . Overall a reasonable document and absolutely worth reading if you’re thinking about...
2017-03-22
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Thinking about Chapters (aka Groups)
I think it was 2003 or 2004 when someone from PASS came to Orlando and helped start what became OPASS....
2017-03-11
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The Ebb & Flow of Community Participation
It’s an interesting moment when you discover the SQL community (or any other I suppose). It’s the moment of finding the...
2017-03-05
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Would You Still Love Linux If Windows Was Free?
How often is cost the deciding factor in the case of Windows vs Linux? And what if cost wasn’t a...
2017-02-07
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Worth Reading – Something I learned while unemployed by Rod Falanga
SQLServerCentral recently published Something I learned while unemployed. Written by Rod Falanga, it has lessons worth learning about making time to...
2017-01-28
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Notes from the January 2017 oPASS/MagicPASS Meeting
This was a good meeting. About 50 attendees showed up at Nova (we use their space for joint meetings) to...
2017-01-23
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Joint OPASS/MagicPASS Meeting Tomorrow Night (January 18, 2017)
Grant Fritchey will be presenting Faster Provisioning with SQL Clone and Denny Cherry is presenting Optimizing SQL Server Performance in...
2017-01-17
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Should We Allow Paid Sponsor Presentations at PASS Summit?
For many years the PASS Summit program committee has enforced a bright line rule – no sponsor content in the educational...
2017-01-09
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Moving to WordPress.com
For years I’ve hosted WordPress somewhere, most recently in Azure using Project Nami so that I could store all the...
2017-01-08
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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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