What's wrong with Linq to SQL
There's a lot of buzz in the development community about LINQ in general, and for those that do data access...
2008-02-04
457 reads
SQLAndy
Notes on the South Florida Code Camp
I attended the South Florida Code Camp this past Saturday and it turned out to be quite an event. More...
2008-02-04
313 reads
Hello Secure World - MS Site Worth Looking At
Saw this in the MSDN flash yesterday, MS has a new Silverlight site up (newest toy and all!) that focuses...
2008-01-29
1,395 reads
The Long Tail
Another book I read recently, The Long Tail by Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine goes into detail talking about some of the changes...
2008-01-29
1,482 reads
IT Transparency Posted on SSC
As I mentioned yesterday the article I wrote on IT Transparency is finally live today and now the wait to...
2008-01-29
1,304 reads
Agenda Posted for South Florida Code Camp
I'll be there doing a presentation on Transactional Replication, and my friend Chris Rock will be doing on on LINQ to...
2008-01-28
1,382 reads
IT Transparency, the intro!
Tomorrow SSC is scheduled to publish an article I wrote on IT Transparency which gives a first person account of...
2008-01-28
1,422 reads
Visiting the Charlotte SQL User Group on Feb 27th
I'll be visiting the Charlotte SQL Group on Feb 27th and I'll be doing one of my favorite presentations, Transactional...
2008-01-28
1,375 reads
Interesting Article about Measuring Performance in Software Test Mag
The Jan 2008 issue of Software Test & Performance Magazine (available as free PDF download, you can also download back issues...
2008-01-27
1,649 reads
System Sessions/Spids Rather than Spid < 50
Saw System Sessions posted on the PSS blog and it shows an example of information being written to the error...
2008-01-23
607 reads
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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