Should Code Camp/SQLSaturday Be Free?
Recently I posted about making sponsorship work to lay out some ideas for events that are seeking sponsors. My friend...
2008-02-13
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SQLAndy
Speaker Eval Form, Part 2
My friend Mike Antonovich was kind enough to really go through my draft and provided some great feedback which I've...
2008-02-12
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Computed Columns Published on SSC
I wrote this article on computed columns to support some of the teaching I do for my beginner to intermediate level...
2008-02-12
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Making Sponsorship Work at Community Events & User Groups (My Wish List)
This topic came up during the speaker reception at the South Florida Code Camp and while I've posted here and...
2008-02-11
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Next oPASS Meeting is Feb 12
For those of you in Orlando our next meeting will be held on Feb 12 from 6-8 pm at the...
2008-02-11
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SQLSaturday Tampa 2008 is This Weekend (Feb 16)
The Tampa crew of Wes Dumey and Pam Shaw and many volunteers have been working on this for the past...
2008-02-11
561 reads
Init from Backup Published on SSC
This article shows how to initialize a subscriber from a backup in SQL 2005. It's a niche technique, but it...
2008-02-11
340 reads
Thoughts on HTTP EndPoints, Schemas, and other niche features
Part of a conversation I had at the South Florida Code Camp was what I thought about various features that...
2008-02-07
441 reads
Chipotle - A Model Business? Or Just Good Food?
Had a friend forward this link to me about Chipotle and it's worth reading if you either A, like Chipotle/Mexican...
2008-02-06
432 reads
Free LINQ Book from MSPress
Introducing Linq is now available as a free download and along with chapters from Introducing ASP.Net Ajax and Introducing Silverlight....
2008-02-05
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Blogs
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...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
Forums
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...
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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