Sometimes You Need an Analog Solution, Sorta - Earth Class Mail
Spotted this on the Webware feed, Earth Class Mail is a service that opens and scans your regular mail so...
2008-01-09
498 reads
SQLAndy
SQL Injection, Again!
Many posts including this one about as many as 70,000 sites being hacked using SQL injection and a vulnerability in...
2008-01-09
629 reads
Partitioning Part 3 Posted on SSC
Part looks at using views for partitioning, still a valid technique even in the SQL 2005 world. I added in...
2008-01-08
258 reads
ACM Queue Article about One Laptop Per Child
If you happen to read ACM Queue there is a great article in the Nov/Dec 2007 issue called 'A Conversation...
2008-01-07
277 reads
SQL Community - The Site
A friend sent me a link to www.sqlcommunity.com and I think I'd list it. So far doesn't seem impressive, but...
2008-01-06
511 reads
SQLSaturday Tampa Call for Speakers
Just a reminder to anyone in the Tampa area, or willing to travel, that the call for speakers for the...
2008-01-03
236 reads
Blog Update & Feedburner
Steve finally got the bugs worked out of the recent blog software upgrade and RSS should be available again. Note...
2008-01-03
447 reads
Congratulations to Bayer White - Connected Systems MVP
Just saw that Bayer posted a note confirming that he is a 2008 MVP. I met Bayer a couple years...
2008-01-02
182 reads
Google Bigtable
Google has - and continues - to do some amazing things. It's easy to be awed by their products and their infrastructure,...
2008-01-01
457 reads
Congratulations to Steve Jones on MVP Status
Steve is a 2008 SQL Server MVP. Well deserved, I can think of few people more visible in the community...
2008-01-01
639 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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