PASS 2012 Countdown – 3 Weeks To Go
Another week down and there are now 3-weeks until this year’s PASS Summit. Take a moment and register now if...
2012-10-17
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StrateSQL
Indexing Book Winner
Back on October 3, I put up a post about a free indexing book. And specifically about Expert Performance Indexing for...
2012-10-17
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysfulltextcatalogs
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-10-17
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysforeignkeys
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-10-19 (first published: 2012-10-16)
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Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #2
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out...
2012-10-15
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Ask the Unicorn: How to become a DBA?
Every now and then I get a question in e-mail and I usually just reply and leave it at that. ...
2012-10-12
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysfiles
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-10-12
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Reblog: October 5 to October 11
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-10-12
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24 Hours of PASS Recordings Online
This just in… the 24 Hours of PASS sessions are in and available for streaming. If you missed an hour...
2012-10-11
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysfilegroups
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-10-11
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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
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
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SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
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Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
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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