I Feel Like a Slacker
After taking off 2 days last week for Thanksgiving, and outsourcing 3 editorials (Thanks to Phil Factor and Tony Davis),...
2008-12-02
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Blog Posts
My Thoughts: Report Builder 2.0
General Thoughts
One of my brother’s favorite lines to use in presentations says it best, “If Microsoft had 10 dollars to...
2008-12-02
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Quickbooks 2009 - Not As Good as 2007
Recently I needed to rearrange some stuff at the office and part of that included moving our install of Quickbooks...
2008-12-02
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The Next Generation DBA
DBA, database developer, analyst, SQL grunt, or whatever your title may be, there is no question that your role will...
2008-12-02
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[Off Topic] Web host is down
For my colleagues and friend who visit my websites (www.bucketofbits.com, www.tyleris.com, www.timmitchell.net), I just discovered that my web host has...
2008-12-01
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American History Quiz
I ran across this history quiz in Jeff Duntemann's blog and thought I'd give it a try. I managed to...
2008-12-01
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Rangers to Masters
The new Certified Master program sounds suspiciously like the Microsoft Certified Architect program, which appears to have been revamped to...
2008-12-01
761 reads
Switching to Live Search
Steve Ballmer issued a challenge to MVPs a couple weeks ago, asking them to switch to Live Search this week...
2008-12-01
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Is the PASS Summit Too Big?
That's the question posed by Kalen Delaney in a write up on SQLMag.com. Is a SQL event of more than...
2008-11-30
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Microsoft Certified Master program – Is This The Answer to Certification Woes?
In the past few years, many people - myself included - have expressed a desire to see the quality of the Microsoft...
2008-11-29
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Blogs
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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