The Effectiveness of Solar Estimation
We added a solar system to the ranch as a way to hedge against future costs as well as require less energy from the utility. I don’t plan to,...
2022-07-08 (first published: 2022-06-24)
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Blog Posts
When is a mouse not a mouse?
This is the first in the series of tools and technologies that I use to deal with the loss of functionality in my hands and arms. Check out this...
2022-07-08 (first published: 2022-06-24)
336 reads
Daily Coping 7 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-07
14 reads
Goodbye to Good Morning!
For two years and three months, since April 2020, I’ve posted a tweet saying “Good Morning!” on every workday. I think I missed one. I was late for a...
2022-07-07
33 reads
Daily Coping 6 Jul 2022
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2022-07-06
37 reads
Honored to be a Microsoft MVP Again
I was renewed this week as a Microsoft MVP. This is my 15th award in a row and each year this happens it is an honor to be recognized...
2022-07-06
24 reads
Log in to Power BI Desktop as an External (B2B) User
I noticed Adam Saxton post a tip on the Guy in a Cube YouTube channel about publishing reports from Power BI Desktop for external users. According to Microsoft Docs...
2022-07-06 (first published: 2022-06-22)
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Snowflake Data Cloud
Time to shift gears away from the world of relational databases whether that is in the cloud, on-prem, Linux-based, containers or even sitting within Kubernetes. Everyone has heard of...
2022-07-06
179 reads
SQL Homework – July 2022 – Update your resume.
Resumes have been on my mind a lot recently. I’ve been thinking that I wish I’d kept mine up to ... Continue reading
2022-07-06 (first published: 2022-07-05)
33 reads
SQLServerCarpenter Tools
Over the past couple of years, I’ve developed several tools that I’ve been using during my Performance Tuning and other related assignments. I thought to share it with the...
2022-07-06 (first published: 2022-07-04)
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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')
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