Four things I wish I’d known back then
In the blogging meme of the day, I was tagged by my friend Tim Costello to share four things I...
2014-09-05 (first published: 2014-08-28)
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Tim Mitchell
Mile High Tech Con
There’s a brand new business intelligence conference launching next month in Denver, Colorado. The Mile High Tech Con is a...
2014-06-27
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SSIS Parent-Child Architecture in Package Deployment Mode
This is the second in a series of posts about SSIS parent-child architecture. You can find the index page here.
In...
2014-06-26
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Speaking at the SQL PASS 2014 Summit
I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at the SQL PASS Summit this fall. The summit will be...
2014-06-25
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Upcoming Presentations in May
Next month, I’ll be making a couple of stops at SQL Saturday events in the south. On May 3, I’ll...
2014-04-18
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SQL Saturday Lisbon
It’s a little over a week until this year’s SQL Saturday festivities kick off in Lisbon, Portugal, and I’m very...
2014-04-01
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Lunch with someone new
I met up for lunch with a good friend and former coworker today, and among the topics of discussion was...
2014-02-19
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Parent-Child SSIS Architecture
This is the first in a series of technical posts on using parent-child architectures in SQL Server Integration Services. The...
2014-02-07
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SSIS and PowerPivot training in Baton Rouge
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be teaming up with my Linchpin People colleague Bill Pearson for a day of...
2014-01-29
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New Blog Series: Parent-Child Architecture in SSIS
I’m kicking off a new series of blog posts discussing the topic of parent-child architectures in SQL Server Integration Services....
2014-01-20
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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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