SQLSaturday Update (Aug 1, 2008)
SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia is progressing nicely. 85 registered, venue locked in, and work under way for fund raising via...
2008-08-01
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SQLAndy
Tool Review: Hamachi VPN
Maybe I haven't looked at the right products, but two years ago when we needed a VPN solution there wasn't...
2008-07-31
1,449 reads
Operation Hands Free
Recently I was driving home and as I made that turn into the sub-division where I live, over the course...
2008-07-30
1,355 reads
Blogging on SQLServerCentral.com
Recently my friend Steve (managing editor of SSC) posted to his blog about The Bad Karma Project that has to...
2008-07-30
1,369 reads
Tool Review: Servers Alive
Not all of us work at companies big enough to justify the expense/time it takes to implement something like MS...
2008-07-29
1,439 reads
Rebuilding Stats: Twice or Not at All Posted on SSC
Rebuilding Stats was published yesterday on SSC, some nice comments posted to it as well. The main point of the...
2008-07-29
1,471 reads
IP6 Addresses Could Break Your DB
I saw this post from Rick Strahl about IP6 Addresses in Vista breaking some code, and it immediately made sense...
2008-07-28
1,442 reads
Tool Review: Microsoft Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel
It's downright common these days to download programs as ISO images, but XP doesn't have a native viewer for them....
2008-07-27
1,695 reads
Blogging Thoughts - Part 2
Earlier I wrote Blogging Thoughts - Part 1 where I discussed the various approaches I've seen in blogs (blogging when you...
2008-07-24
1,345 reads
Tool Review: TaskSwitchXP
For longer than I care to count I've used the Alt-Tab Powertoy from MS to get a nicer view of...
2008-07-23
1,292 reads
Blogs
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...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
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...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
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