Giving Your Best
It's easy to get into a rut at work, and easy to just attempt to get some minimum amount of work done each day. Steve Jones is inspired today to think about doing more.
To Date or Not To Date….
OK….so I’m in the middle of a very interesting Effective Dating project…basically we’re dealing with some tables that only store current data, but there is a need for future-dated data as well. Because the base table can’t hold that data...
Tuning Your SSIS Package Data Flow in the Enterprise (SQL Server Video)
This video demonstrates how to improve the performance of the data flow in an Integration Services package. In this video, you will learn how to tune the following phases of the data flow: Extraction, Transformation, Loading
Using PowerShell with SQL Server Management Objects (SMO)
I want to know how Windows PowerShell can help me as a SQL Server DBA.
Vendor Value
Software maintenance is often required when purchasing software packages. But do the vendors deliver value for this charge? Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the subject.
Vendor Value
Software maintenance is often required when purchasing software packages. But do the vendors deliver value for this charge? Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the subject.
Vendor Value
Software maintenance is often required when purchasing software packages. But do the vendors deliver value for this charge? Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the subject.
Setting up a SQL cluster under MS VS2005 R2 Part2
Continuing with setting up a 2 node SQL cluster under MS Virtual server 2005 Ent R2 SP1, Perry Whittle looks at the SQL configuration in this article.
The Best Days
Feeling his age a bit, Steve Jones asks you about yours in this Friday's poll. Where do you think you are in your career as a technologist?
The Data Access Handbook - Sample Chapter
We have a sample chapter available from The Data Access Handbook, written by experts at DataDirect Technologies.
Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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The Distance Metric
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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