PASS Summit 2014 Diary – Day 0
This week, I’m attending two different summit events in the Seattle area. On Sunday through Tuesday, I’ll be participating in...
2014-11-02
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This week, I’m attending two different summit events in the Seattle area. On Sunday through Tuesday, I’ll be participating in...
2014-11-02
751 reads
As I write this, I’m airborne and on my way to Seattle for the summit week (the Microsoft MVP Summit,...
2014-11-01
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“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…”
No, not the end-of-year festival of repetitive music, overeating, and trampling on other...
2014-10-31
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Recently I was building a new virtual machine for presentations, and loaded up my usual battery – Windows 7, SQL Server...
2014-09-24 (first published: 2014-09-22)
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In the blogging meme of the day, I was tagged by my friend Tim Costello to share four things I...
2014-09-05 (first published: 2014-08-28)
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There’s a brand new business intelligence conference launching next month in Denver, Colorado. The Mile High Tech Con is a...
2014-06-27
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This is the second in a series of posts about SSIS parent-child architecture. You can find the index page here.
In...
2014-06-26
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I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at the SQL PASS Summit this fall. The summit will be...
2014-06-25
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Next month, I’ll be making a couple of stops at SQL Saturday events in the south. On May 3, I’ll...
2014-04-18
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It’s a little over a week until this year’s SQL Saturday festivities kick off in Lisbon, Portugal, and I’m very...
2014-04-01
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By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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