Steve Jones has attended a lot of conferences, including one recently in Austin. With the PASS Summit and SQL Connections coming up soon, he shares some reasons why a conference can be a great way to spend your training money.
Steve Jones has attended a lot of conferences, including one recently in Austin. With the PASS Summit and SQL Connections coming up soon, he shares some reasons why a conference can be a great way to spend your training money.
Steve Jones has attended a lot of conferences, including one recently in Austin. With the PASS Summit and SQL Connections coming up soon, he shares some reasons why a conference can be a great way to spend your training money.
Best-practice advice on software vs. coding, where to integrate, how to capture changed data, when to stage data, where to correct data and what latency levels to shoot for.
In the crusade to cut expenses, Data Centres (and IT Infrastructure) are now coming under scrutiny as a possible source of savings. Half-informed executives now rally behind the cry of "Virtualization!", but virtualization is only part of the story - The tip of the consolidation iceberg - and it might not actually save you as much as you think. Thomas LaRock takes us deeper.
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A new feature is available on SQLServerCentral, and Steve Jones talks a little about how it fits in with your strategy here at the site. Visit ask.sqlservercentral.com and let us know what you think.
Tips on parsing and sculpting XML from within a SQL 2005 stored procedure
A new feature is available on SQLServerCentral, and Steve Jones talks a little about how it fits in with your strategy here at the site. Visit ask.sqlservercentral.com and let us know what you think.
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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