Tampa Code Camp - Again
This turned out to be a nice event, better venue than last year. Well organized is always appreciated even at...
2007-07-18
1,370 reads
SQLAndy
Buy a $10 Raffle Ticket to Help Katie
Not a happy story, but if you've got a child I suspect it will be easy to decide to buy...
2007-07-12
1,389 reads
Wiki For Books Online
Browsing MSDN this morning and saw the note that they now have Wiki support. If done well it could be...
2007-07-09
601 reads
The Perils of NewID for Randomizing Results
NewID() is commonly used in the order by to return the result set in random fashion. No idea whether its...
2007-07-09
907 reads
Cursors to Increase Performance?
I recently had the chance to look over a friends shoulder at a query that needed some tuning work. In...
2007-07-06
714 reads
70-444 Exam Prep Book
I just got my author copies of the Sybex book for exam 70-444 and have to say the book looks...
2007-07-05
732 reads
Debugging Stored Procedures in VS 2005
My friend and former co-worker Chris Rock just posted at article over at SQLTeam.com that has a pretty good walk...
2007-06-27
1,366 reads
Celko Cites Steve Jones
I'm at the bookstore today alternating some work with some professional development time and was reading some of Celko's SQL...
2007-06-20
1,414 reads
GO More than Once?
SSC had a fairly routine article up recently about The GO Command the Semi Colon Terminator which I read, and...
2007-06-18
1,371 reads
Tampa Code Camp 2007
Web site just went live for this year. Brian & I both presented sessions last year and we're planning to go...
2007-06-12
1,343 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...
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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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