Blogging Thoughts - Part 1
One of the things I've been looking at is different blogging styles and trying to figure out which to recommend...
2008-07-22
1,327 reads
SQLAndy
Disabling Indexes Published on SQLServerCentral.com
It's been a while since I had anything up on SSC, a combination of Steve being in good shape on...
2008-07-22
487 reads
Tool Review: Password Safe
I think we all struggle to keep up with various credentials needed to live our internet lives (single sign on...
2008-07-21
542 reads
Why Are Stored Procedures Too Hard?
Recently I was going through the buy or build process on a small segment of functionality needed for a project,...
2008-07-20
854 reads
Follow Up Notes on the Custom Whiteboard
A few months back I posted about our latest whiteboard and I thought I'd report back with an update. Initially...
2008-07-17
512 reads
Tools
Below is a list of various tools I use, some SQL related and some not. Follow the links to my...
2008-07-17
1,170 reads
Comments on Dissecting SQL Server Execution Plans by Grant Fitchey
Long time SSC participant Grant Fitchey has published a great book on reading/understanding execution plans. I finally had the chance...
2008-07-16
1,358 reads
Jacksonville Code Camp Set for August 23, 2008
The fourth annual Jacksonville Code Camp is set for August 23, 2008 and it looks like they are off to...
2008-07-15
466 reads
MentoringNet
I ran across MentoringNet in a recent renewal flyer from ACM. I'm interesting in all things mentoring, so I went...
2008-07-14
1,003 reads
What is an MVP?
My friend Steve Jones posted an article called What's an MVP on SSC that in turn led to a moderately...
2008-07-13
1,402 reads
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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