Interview questions
Lately, I’ve been asked by several folks about the interview questions that I use when I interview candidates for SQL...
2012-06-15 (first published: 2012-06-11)
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Blog Posts
One week after #sqlsat132
It has been nearly one week since SQL Saturday 132 in Pensacola Florida. I was chosen to give my talk...
2012-06-15
710 reads
Slacking Off: The Right Side of the Brain
I think it’s only fitting to follow up a post about performance reviews and self-evaluations with a post about slacking...
2012-06-15
1,006 reads
TechEd North America 2012 videos online
Microsoft has posted ALL the session videos for TechEd North America 2012 and they are available for free! What a...
2012-06-15
1,044 reads
Contained Databases – Preventing Collation Conflicts
One of the demos from my Contained Databases talk looks at the issues you can have when your database collation...
2012-06-14 (first published: 2012-06-07)
2,328 reads
Latest Presentation on SQL Server Mirroring Given at Transcontinental's Offices
With a handful of System Administrators, Network Specialists and DBAs, I gave my third presentation on SQL Server Mirroring this...
2012-06-14
1,512 reads
NomCom, what it’s all about
I submitted my application for the NomCom last week and the polls opened up yesterday. I’ve seen an amazing amount...
2012-06-14
615 reads
PASS Data Architecture VC presents Neil Hambly–Improve Data Quality & Integrity using Constraint
Tuesday’s (June 19th, 2012) PASS Data Architecture Virtual Chapter has Neil talks about database design that uses Constraints for Integrity...
2012-06-14
695 reads
Running for the #SQLPass #NomCom
Guess, what? I’ve thrown my hat in to the elections for the Nomination Committee for PASS. That means that I...
2012-06-14
831 reads
@LearningTree: 2108 SQL Server 2012 Database Administration
This past week my international adventures have continued. As some of you know, for the past couple of years, I...
2012-06-13
1,536 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
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...
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
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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