The DBA Boat
For a fun Friday poll, what type of SQL or database related name would you give to yourself or someone else? Steve Jones asks the question after someone sends an email about naming their new boat with a SQL name.
4 Ways to Increase Your Salary (Using UPDATE)
This article depicts how to approach row by row updates needed in a salary table. It might not directly let you increase your salary, but it could help you at review time.
Happy Thanksgiving 2009
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US. The editorial today has a blooper reel from the podcasts in celebration of the holiday.
Happy Thanksgiving 2009
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US. The editorial today has a blooper reel from the podcasts in celebration of the holiday.
Happy Thanksgiving 2009
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the US. The editorial today has a blooper reel from the podcasts in celebration of the holiday.
Building a Yahoo Finance input adapter for SQL Server StreamInsight
Step by step guide to building and debugging a SQL Server StreamInsight input adapter.
Networking One Tweet at a Time
Maintaining a professional network can take some effort from you, but the modern social networking tools can help. Steve Jones talks about some of the benefits from keeping in touch with other professionals this way.
Change the Report Manager logo
A common question I've been asked a lot lately is how to replace the icon in the Report Manager to...
Controlling Execution Plans with Hints
The Query Optimizer gets it right most of the time, but occasionally it chooses a plan that isn't the best possible. You can give the Query Optimiser a better idea by using Table, Join and Query hints. These come with a risk: Any choices you force on the Optimizer by using hints can turn out to be entirely wrong as the database changes with the addition of data over time. Grant Fritchey, in a chapter from his highly acclaimed book, explains further.
Networking One Tweet at a Time
Maintaining a professional network can take some effort from you, but the modern social networking tools can help. Steve Jones talks about some of the benefits from keeping in touch with other professionals this way.
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
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...
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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