How do you make a Wiki work?
Following up on my post about Wikipedia, I read an article in Eweek, 25 Tips for a Better Wiki Deployment...
2007-12-09
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SQLAndy
Contributing to Wikipedia
Recently I posted about an interview with Jimmy Wales and only a couple days after that I ran across What...
2007-12-06
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Powerpoint from a Blackberry
Ran across the Impactica Showmate, a $249 item (gadget?) that allows you to present Powerpoint presentations wirelessly via Bluetooth directly...
2007-12-04
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How Will Processor Licensing Evolve?
Information week had an interesting article that talks about the different methods of licensing used, ranging from the what we're...
2007-12-04
646 reads
Event and Session Evaluation Results for SQLSaturday Orlando
SQLSaturday is ultimately about attendees, and they finally speak! The scores look very good and the comments should be useful...
2007-12-02
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The DBA Routine Posted on SSC
This was fun to write, though it's hard to boil everything down to 10 big steps. I thnk as an...
2007-11-30
1,442 reads
MS, kill Begin/End!
It's funny - sorta - how you become used to the quirks of the tools you. I try not to rant too...
2007-11-29
1,411 reads
Why Don't People Go to Free Training?
I was having this discussion recently with Shawn Weisfeld, President of ONETUG and it's definitely a frustrating topic. As a...
2007-11-28
1,419 reads
Google CIO and IT Strategy
CIO Magazine has a interesting article about Douglas Merrill, the CIO of Google. One of the things he dicusses in...
2007-11-26
1,693 reads
Community Search vs Brute Force Algorithms
I was reading an interview with Jimmy Wales (the Wikipedia guy) in Selling Power magazine (I have ecletic reading preferences...
2007-11-26
1,355 reads
Blogs
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I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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