Speaking at SQLSaturday #7 in Birmingham on May 30, 2009
I'm flying up Friday afternoon to participate in SQLSaturday #7 which is being led by John Baldwin and his team...
2009-05-26
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Blog Posts
The SQLServerCentral Outage
A lot of people have asked what happened over the Memorial Day weekend as SQLServerCentral was down. All I can...
2009-05-26
1,584 reads
Tracking Deprecated Features
This week I'm in Brno, Czech Republic leading an App Compat seminar for Microsoft clients here, and one of the...
2009-05-26
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Featured Blogger: Wes Dumey
Wes is a friend acquiring via networking and community involvement - another success story! He's based in Tampa and has been...
2009-05-25
560 reads
Looking for the Next RSS Reader
I've been using Snarfer for a while now, preferring an offline reader so that I use a few spare moments...
2009-05-25
738 reads
Speaking Engagements for The Modern Resume
I’m giving my talk on The Modern Resume – Building Your Brand a few more times this year and I’ve got...
2009-05-25
992 reads
SQL Server Encryption - Protecting Files at Rest
You have a few options for protecting your SQL Server data at rest. So far I haven't seen anything thing...
2009-05-25
3,511 reads
Memorial Day
Today in the United States we celebrate Memorial Day, the day we remember American casualties of any military action. Though...
2009-05-24
558 reads
A Flood of Books
I'm on a few publishers' lists as someone that reviews books, works with SQL Server, and in general might help...
2009-05-22
758 reads
Hyper-V – A New Machine
I installed Hyper-V onto a new machine as a role for the base Windows 2008 server role. It required a...
2009-05-22
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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...
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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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