Thank You Wendy!
I honestly don’t know when or how I met Wendy Pastrick, but I’m so happy I did. Wendy and I have been friends for a very long time. Thank...
2022-07-19
20 reads
The Scary DBA
Sabbatical!
Redgate Software has a policy wherein every 5 years, employees receive a 6-week paid sabbatical. Well, I’m up to year 11 (I skipped a year my first time), so...
2022-07-18
5 reads
Thank You Allen!
I know I can say that I’m a friend of Allen White without getting into trouble. Allen and I have a shared a lot of things over the years...
2022-07-12
109 reads
Extended Events for Anything But Query Tuning: xml_deadlock_report_filtered
One of my favorite little bits of information about Extended Events is the fact that everyone running a full instance of SQL Server has deadlock information available to them,...
2022-07-11
24 reads
Goodbye to Good Morning!
For two years and three months, since April 2020, I’ve posted a tweet saying “Good Morning!” on every workday. I think I missed one. I was late for a...
2022-07-07
32 reads
Thank You Kevin!
I don’t think I’m going too far out on a limb to call Kevin Kline a friend. I’m extremely humbled and honored that I can say that. Kevin is...
2022-07-06
18 reads
Extended Events for Anything But Query Tuning: Unique Constraint Violations
Most of the time when I talk about or demo Extended Events, I spend more time talking about query tuning (I have a problem). However, there are tons of...
2022-07-05
146 reads
2022 State of PostgreSQL Survey
Hello all. I know most of you are still working within SQL Server. However, a few of you are become more like me, hybrid data managers, working in more...
2022-06-13
4 reads
PostgreSQL and Azure Data Studio
As I’ve been working more with PostgreSQL, I’ve found that I’m basically pretty happy just issuing SQL commands to get work done. However, it’s handy to have an actual...
2022-06-06
4 reads
Extended Events in AWS RDS
For the longest time, we didn’t have one of the most useful tools for monitoring SQL Server behavior, but I just found out that, indeed, you can use Extended...
2022-05-11 (first published: 2022-05-02)
192 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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When SQL Server Central Went Down
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The String Distance I
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How Database Professionals Sent a Million Emails a Day from SQL Server
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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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