Hard Core Object Oriented Programming Guidelines
I read Andrew Binstock occassionally in SD Times and in the most recent issue he posted a list of guidelines...
2008-05-21
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SQLAndy
Pop Quiz - What's the Max Number of Resultsets Supported by Management Studio?
Ran across this strange occurence while doing some testing. To duplicate the results (the actual code was a little more...
2008-05-20
1,479 reads
Managing & Professional Development Classes
I've been working on a rough outline for two new classes that will each be one day long. One on...
2008-05-18
487 reads
FlyClear, Privacy, and Time
Recently I signed up for the FlyClear program (www.flyclear.com), a registered traveler program. Over the past year I've been travelling...
2008-05-15
709 reads
A Display Challenge
I've grown to like the presenter view in Powerpoint 2007; let's me navigate easily, and more important, lets me easily...
2008-05-13
450 reads
Visiting Boston This Week
I get busy and usually forget to post when I'm out and about, but for once I've remembered. I'll be...
2008-05-11
454 reads
Follow Up Notes on SQLSaturday #3
Our most recent SQLSaturday went well, but there is always room for improvement. Here are my notes from this event:
The...
2008-05-08
391 reads
ACM, 5 Year Anniversary, and Customer Service
Time moves by and I was surprised to get a coffee mug in the mail from ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)...
2008-05-07
481 reads
One More SQL Feature Wish
It would be handy to have a checkbox/SET option/something that would tell SQL not to cache plans run in a...
2008-05-06
412 reads
Will You Host the Next SQLSaturday?
How to have more SQLSaturdays?
Over the past year we've been working on the ambitious goal of building a national franchise...
2008-05-06
783 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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