Jason Brimhall


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May I help you?

With the Vancouver games underway, I have been reflecting on the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.  Those were the greatest winter...

2010-02-18

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DBA.Sleep(8hrs)

I have been pondering recently what helps me to sleep at night.  Or, conversely, what prevents me from sleeping at...

2010-02-17

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In Vs. Inner Join

This is tightly related to another of my forays into tuning some slowly/poorly performing processes.  This process came across my...

2010-02-16

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PayPeriod II

I recently blogged about a solution I had decided to use in order to solve a problem related to PayPeriod...

2010-02-14

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Relationships

This month Rob Farley is hosting TSQL-Tuesday #3.  The topic is Relationships and he has left it wide open for...

2010-02-09

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Are you getting value from your reporting?

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Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...

The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central

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It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...

Git forked

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Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...

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Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server

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Expanding into Print

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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem

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Question of the Day

The String Distance I

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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