Women in technology
Earlier this week a friend of mine (Lynn Swayze (Hall) (b/t)) posted this great article on women in technology. It’s...
2015-11-25
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SQLStudies
Using multiple log files
The transaction log is made up of one or more files that are used sequentially. So in other words if...
2015-11-27 (first published: 2015-11-23)
1,542 reads
Naught to Speaker pt 3
Becoming a speaker is one heck of a journey. Early this year I submitted a session to speak at Pass...
2015-11-18
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SSMS Setup
Every time I install a new version of SSMS I make a handful of changes to the default setup. For...
2015-11-16
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Hiding one or more columns
This isn’t something you have to do frequently, but sometimes you don’t want the users to have access to certain...
2015-11-12
670 reads
Why are you still using datetime?
It’s almost Thanksgiving time again! Let’s see, what am I thankful for? T-SQL Tuesday! Someone else get’s to pick a...
2015-11-12 (first published: 2015-11-10)
4,847 reads
Questions from “SQL Server Security for Everyone”
I recently gave my SQL Server Security for Everyone session at Summit 2015. (I’m still in awe about that by...
2015-11-04
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Administrative Logins and Users
If you’ve ever worked through an audit you have probably gotten a request that looks a lot like this:
Please give...
2015-11-02
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Who’s on call
Of all the posts I’ve written I think this one is my favorite, even though it’s not a technical post....
2015-10-28
504 reads
Finding and keeping your #SQLPassion
I consider myself lucky. I fell into a job that I truly enjoy, something that I do for fun even...
2015-10-26
485 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
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...
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
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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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