Why Am I Amazed By a 2000 Page Word Doc?
It’s not uncommon to have information shared in a Word doc, but I was surprised recently to open one up...
2011-12-16
715 reads
SQLAndy
Will You Buy Refurbished? Part 2
Yesterday I shared the small adventure of buying a refurbished laptop. While I was at Compusa looking at laptops I...
2011-12-15
860 reads
Will You Buy Refurbished? Part 1
A couple months back the laptop my wife uses was fading away, the internal power connector was broken/barely working and...
2011-12-14
639 reads
Notes from the MagicPASS Holiday Party
I haven’t been to a MagicPASS meeting in a while, so it was nice to reconnect with the group at...
2011-12-14
728 reads
The Shredder Challenge
The Shredder Challenge was a contest sponsored by DARPA to find ways of putting shredded documents back together. Take a...
2011-12-13
847 reads
Presenting at IT Pro Camp in January 2012
My first outing of the new year will be at the IT Pro Camp here in Orlando, working on some...
2011-12-12
645 reads
More Culture-The Failure Wall
Ran across this during my daily reading, a post by Jeff Stibel on Why I Hire People That Fail. The...
2011-12-12
779 reads
My Recipe for Chocolate Pie
One of our small holiday traditions is that we bake at least one home made dessert. Hard to beat the...
2011-12-09
647 reads
Book Review: Sixkill
Sixkill is the 39th Spencer novel, and the last that was written by Robert Parker before his death. The plot...
2011-12-08
642 reads
First Thoughts on the Kindle Fire
My perception of the tablet market has been that the iPad is king, but at a kingly price. If I...
2011-12-07
798 reads
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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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('Steve', 'Stan')
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