Randomized Colors in Report
Randomized color report? So help my CODE!
Writing a Reporting Services report can be challenging, making you use the most of...
2014-07-01
1,659 reads
Generating Email Reports using XML
SQL Server has some handy features: one of those features is dbmail, which I tend to use less until I’ve...
2014-06-19
824 reads
Mind the Gap
Recently we deployed database mirroring in an environment with an Active Directory. The process is usually quite simple and straight-forward,...
2014-03-04
622 reads
Memory Timeouts
Recently I was asked to investigate a timeout issue that was causing SSIS package executions to fail.
The timeouts seemed to...
2013-12-30
1,293 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
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')
Assume preview features are enabled. See possible answers