Lessons Learned from SQLSaturday #2 - Tampa 2008
I posted earlier about the event being a great success with more than 200 attendees, in this post I want...
2008-02-24
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SQLAndy
LINQ Again!
I recently attended SQLSaturday#2 in Tampa and had the brief chance to chat with David Hayden about LINQ (I suspect I...
2008-02-21
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Call for Speakers for PASS Summit is Open Through March 28, 2008
The Summit is being held in Seattle, WA, Nov 18-21, 2008. Call for speakers is open through March 28. It's...
2008-02-21
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New Book from Celko - Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in SQL
I've been meaning to post this, Joe's latest book Joe Celko's Thinking in Sets: Auxiliary, Temporal, and Virtual Tables in...
2008-02-20
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Dry Erase Board v2
When we first set up shop for End To End Training we knew we wanted both a flip chart and...
2008-02-19
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SQLSaturday #3 - Jacksonville 2008 - Registration and Call for Speakers is Open
My business partnerBrian Knight just finalized the venue for the next SQLSaturday. Number three will be held at the University...
2008-02-19
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Ideas for Managing Cables
I had to run all the cables for all the machines in our classroom recently and you know how messy...
2008-02-18
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SQLSaturday #2 (Tampa 2008) Notes
Congratulations to Wes Dumey, Pam Shaw, and the rest of the Tampa volunteers for building a very nice event. Very...
2008-02-18
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Management Article Posted on SSC
I wrote Management because we typically get it so wrong in our line of work. Nothing better than working for...
2008-02-18
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Getting Geeks (IT Pro's) To Talk at User Group Meetings
User groups have to be about more than technical content if you want to sustain them over the long term,...
2008-02-14
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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
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The String Distance I
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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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