Android v Windows Mobile
I’ve had a number of cell phones in my life, probably more than many people. Typically I’ve just grabbed a...
2009-03-26
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Blog Posts
Featured Blog - Brian Kelley
My friend Brian writes Databases, Infrastructure, and Security and like me, he writes about an eclectic mix that goes beyond...
2009-03-26
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Gone Dark
This afternoon was quite interesting around the office. A strong thunderstorm moved through the area, a common occurrence in Texas...
2009-03-25
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How to Deal with the Difficult Forum User
It has happened to us all at one time or another. We are trying to help someone on an online...
2009-03-25
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Launch Replication Monitor Without SSMS
I manage a lot of replication publications\subscriptions and when I get a latency or agent failure alert it always bugs...
2009-03-25
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Minimalist Design
I'm been in tactical mode lately, building an advertising management system for one of our projects. Actually it's v2, the...
2009-03-25
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Some Common Date Routines
I'm sure that these routines are available in a variety of locations, this just adds one more place that people...
2009-03-25
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Touch Your Resume
One of the pieces of advice that I give in my talk "The Modern Resume" is that you should review,...
2009-03-25
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What a fortnight I had
This has been one of the most stressful fortnight in this company. I did not feel this stressed when our...
2009-03-25
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Ada Lovelace Day – Celebrating Women In Technology
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. I don't...
2009-03-24
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers