Costco & Blueberry Muffins
You’ve probably heard of Costco, one of those warehouse type stores that sells stuff in bulk. We buy stuff there...
2009-08-20
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Blog Posts
Managing Your Database
It seems that I see posts like this one more often than I'd like. Or at least some variation on...
2009-08-20
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Practical or Silly?
I won $25 from Thinkgeek via Intel from a twitter contest. Can you follow that? I posted a question for...
2009-08-20
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Things to consider...
Hi.... I found some interesting COOL and Caution stuff on sql server, Will try to keep this updated....Cool Stuff:
1.SSMS: now...
2009-08-20
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Two Book Recommendations
I have two new books that I can heartily recommend. This isn’t a review of either book since I’ve only...
2009-08-20
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August SQL Server User Group – Near Real-time Data Warehouse
Well we had a really good meeting this week at our User Group. There were about 17 physical attendees and...
2009-08-19
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Buck Woody Joins SQLSaturday Advisory Council
Just announced at http://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2009/08/sqlsaturday-advisory-council-newest.html, Buck makes three – one more to go coming up soon!
2009-08-19
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Don’t Use USE (in SSIS, at least)
I ran into a situation this week that brought to light a subtle syntactical error I’d made in creating an...
2009-08-19
755 reads
I/O You a followup - More about I/O, Performance Tuning & Troubleshooting....
Yesterday, I blogged about basic I/O usage with some useful scripts, DMVs, and links to more in-depth details on examining...
2009-08-19
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Looking for SQL Speakers Near Wheeling, WV
I had a great call with John Sterrett last week about the possibility of having a SQLSaturday in Wheeling and...
2009-08-19
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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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