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SQL errors and other failures fixed from the trenches
Solve your SQL Server error, problem or installation failure with this advice. Learn how to fix SQL performance errors and suspect data recovery problems.
SQL Server Sanity: Maintain Healthy Transaction Logs for Easy Data Recovery
Learn how executing frequent backups and maintaining healthy transaction logs in SQL Server leads to quick recovery. Failing to do so can mean having to re-enter a lot of data.
Enough - Database Weekly (Oct. 20, 2008)
The loss of data is getting ridiculous. Steve Jones wants companies and government to do something about it.
Who Wants to Be Rich?
With all the concern over the economy lately, Steve Jones talks about about finances and tries to bring perspective to those of us in the real world.
Who Wants to Be Rich?
With all the concern over the economy lately, Steve Jones talks about about finances and tries to bring perspective to those of us in the real world.
SQL Server 2000 Useful Undocumented Stored Procedures
In this article, Alexander Chigrik looks at some useful undocumented stored procedures that shipped with SQL Server 2000.
The Financial Crisis
With the economy slowing the the world facing a financial crisis, Steve Jones polls the man on the street this Friday.
Who was that Affinity Masked Man?
Getting the number of processor cores that SQL Server is using is not as straitforward as it could be. Enter the affinity mask, bitwise operations and good old fashioned computer science.
Enough - Database Weekly (Oct. 20, 2008)
The loss of data is getting ridiculous. Steve Jones wants companies and government to do something about it.
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
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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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