Well Run Companies
One of the things I use to identify how well a company is managed is by looking at how (well)...
2008-07-13
1,622 reads
SQLAndy
SQLSaturday #5 & #6 Update
SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia is progressing nicely. Greg, Russ, and team have locked in a venue and with registration just...
2008-07-11
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Vacation Reading - Boyd & Mullane
I did quite a bit of reading during a recent week off including two biographies. One was Boyd: The Fighter...
2008-07-10
389 reads
Employee or 1099, Part 2
A couple weeks back I posted Employee or 1099 and now that my friend Wes Dumey has posted his last installment, I...
2008-07-09
317 reads
Ironkey Personal - Super Secure USB?
Ran across IronKey Personal in PC Magazine and thought some of you might be interested. It has built in encryption,...
2008-07-08
279 reads
Listening on a Non Standard Port
I had a note to myself to write up some notes about listening on a non standard port, but it...
2008-07-07
395 reads
One Year Blog Review
Just over a year ago I decided to start a blog and I put an item on my calendar to...
2008-07-06
355 reads
Celebrating July 4th
I try to limit the number of truly off topic posts I do, but today is a special day in...
2008-07-03
238 reads
INETA Champs Program
My friend Shawn Weiseld posted a note about the new INETA Champs Program. Looks interesting and is a nice step...
2008-07-02
348 reads
Growing New Speakers/How to Go National/PASS Needs a Policy
I commented in an earlier post about the challenges PASS has in trying to select a 100 or so speakers...
2008-07-01
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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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