Daily Coping 11 June 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-06-11
15 reads
The Voice of the DBA
Next week is EightKB–The SQL Server Internals Conference
Next week, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, the EightKB conference takes place. As with other events, it’s online, and it is full of high level content. It looks to...
2020-06-10
37 reads
Daily Coping 10 June 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-06-10
12 reads
Creating a Repository from VSCode–#SQLNewBlogger
I’ve been working with a few different git clients, and trying to write some articles to help people get started. As I do this, I thought it was interesting...
2020-06-25 (first published: 2020-06-10)
360 reads
Adding the Social Headline Topic
The world is changing, and the activism is infectious. I’ve tried to be fairly apolitical and unoffensive for most of my career. I definitely have not always succeeded, but...
2020-06-09
9 reads
Daily Coping 9 June 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-06-09
13 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #127–Non SQL Tricks
Today is T-SQL Tuesday, with this month being hosted by Ken Fisher. This is an interesting topic, looking at tips, but ones outside of SQL Server. Since many of...
2020-06-09
109 reads
Social: A Small Step to Address Poor Past Behavior
Tl;Dr – This is about changing your main branch in git to main. However, please read and think about what I am saying here. When I started working with...
2020-06-08
39 reads
Reading an dataset in R
I got a dataset file the other day with an .rds extension. I had never seen this, but with a quick Google, I figured out this was a dataset...
2020-06-08
91 reads
Daily Coping 8 June 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-06-08
11 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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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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