We Don't Have Perfect Information
Trying to pick the perfect schedule at a conference is fraught with issues.
2018-09-12
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Editorials
2018-09-11
82 reads
Is Forgiveness Possible?
Recently, there was a prominent film director fired from directing an episode in a very entertaining and profitable movie franchise. His firing was for tweets he made that were in very bad taste. And bad doesn’t begin to cover it, they were about topics that were universally despicable. What made this interesting was not that […]
2018-09-10
62 reads
The Hybrid Cloud
There are lots of options with cloud providers and hybrid versions of public and private clouds might be the best solution.
2018-09-10
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College Degrees Shouldn't Be Required for Tech Jobs
Today we have a guest editorial from Kendra Little that talks about the requirements you may have for potential employees.
2018-09-07
156 reads
What is the best way to on-board (train) a new junior employee?
It is important to train new people, so what is the best way to go about doing it?
2018-09-06
362 reads
Back Yourself Up
Ever thought about yourself as a resource that should be backed up to minimize your loss?
2018-09-05
97 reads
I Feel Like a Magician
Something sufficiently complex, in our eyes, may appear to be magic. Steve Jones feels some of his knowledge about SQL Server looks the same way to others.
2018-09-04 (first published: 2015-07-06)
266 reads
2018-09-03
61 reads
2018-09-03
37 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
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
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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