A Thought on Career Decisions
One of the many conversations I had at the PASS Summit was about whether to pursue Direction A or Direction...
2011-10-28
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SQLAndy
Seeing Yourself as Others Do
As life skills go one of the hardest is to see yourself as others do – they apply all kinds of...
2011-10-25
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PASS Update #66 (All Good Things)
Last week I emailed the Board of Directors my resignation effective December 31st of this year, ending my current term...
2011-10-24
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Virtual/Adhoc Teams
I’m a fan of virtual teams, times when you pull together people from across many teams to form a team...
2011-10-20
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3D Printing for Under $1000
I saw this about the iModela 3d printer, it’s priced under $1000, making it approachable if not quite cheap. 3d...
2011-10-19
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Culture Posters
I work with a client now that had a poster made of the top 10 values for the IT department....
2011-10-19
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Next PASS Summit is Nov 6-9, 2012
After enjoying the entirely reasonable weather in Seattle in October this year we’ll return to our more traditional time frame...
2011-10-19
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2011 PASS Summit-Report #4
I’m writing this at the Seattle airport on Friday night with a couple hours to relax before the midnight flight...
2011-10-15
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2011 PASS Summit–Report #3
Friday morning keynote. Quick intro from Rick Heiges. Buck Woody and Rob Farley singing, quite the sight for Friday morning....
2011-10-14
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2011 PASS Summit–Report #2
Starting the keynote on Wednesday, Bill Graziano talking about Kilt Day, quite a few of the bloggers wearing kilts (no,...
2011-10-13
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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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