Office Ribbon - Find The Command/Out of Office?
I guess I'm stuck in the past, but the Office Ribbon still hasn't grown on me. I think it makes...
2008-12-22
741 reads
SQLAndy
Call It a Day, or a Day Minus 2 Milliseconds
There's one report that I look at every day to assess how things are going on a project we launched...
2008-12-21
603 reads
A Week of Books - Part 5
Last and not least this week, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. This is an authorized biography...
2008-12-18
706 reads
Evaluate Jack Corbetts Blog
My friend Jack has been blogging for almost a year now and is looking for feedback. If you're a blogger...
2008-12-18
596 reads
A Week of Books - Part 4
Magazines today instead of books, but hopefully you'll count that as close enough to my theme of the week. I...
2008-12-17
540 reads
A Week of Books - Part 3
I'm still finishing up two books that I'll mention today. Most non-technical books I read straight through, anything technical/learning based...
2008-12-17
541 reads
A Week of Books - Part 2
I'm just finishing up Boards At Work which talks about how a good board of directors can make a big...
2008-12-15
570 reads
A Week of Books - Part 1
I've been catching up on reading over the last month and I feel like taking a break from things technical/community/etc...
2008-12-15
657 reads
PASS Presentation Evaluation Results
Just as I did last year I'm posting my evaluation scores for review. I co-presented with Steve Jones a session...
2008-12-15
804 reads
Calories Burned During Sex
Ah, if you're reading this aren't you the curious one! I ran across the link below a while back and...
2008-12-11
641 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers