Great Read on the Difficulty of Computer Security
The SANS Internet Storm Center has a great handler post about working at the Abuse department for an ISP:
Securing a...
2008-08-04
797 reads
Blog Posts
Kindle Update - August
Apparently the Kindle is a great success, financially, for Amazon. That's good to hear, though I haven't made the decision...
2008-08-04
746 reads
Moving TempDB Posted on SQLServerCentral.com
Moving Tempdb isn't a common operation, and mercifully a simple one if it comes to that. As in much of...
2008-08-04
296 reads
Tool Review: Snarfer
I'm probably in the minority, but I use an offline reader for consuming feeds. Nothing wrong with browser based readers other than that...
2008-08-04
252 reads
oPASS Meeting Tomorrow Night (Aug 5, 2008)
We've got two technical sessions scheduled for tomorrow night. The first is by long time oPASS member Dolores Tofel discussing...
2008-08-03
319 reads
Cold backup and remote control of sql server services
I recently got a request to do a "cold" backup of a small yet complex db environment, I say "small" because...
2008-08-02
711 reads
You Hired Good People, Right?
In the current issue of Redmond magazine there's an interesting story in the Never Again column. It's titled:
Listen to the...
2008-08-02
925 reads
Filestream and Full-Text Issues
I'm tech editing a book on Full-Text Search for SQL Server 2008 and the last few weeks have been quite...
2008-08-01
1,286 reads
Nmap 4.68 Available
The network scanner Nmap has a new version out, 4.68. The GUI interface (Zenmap) which comes with the Windows installer version...
2008-08-01
575 reads
SQLSaturday Update (Aug 1, 2008)
SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia is progressing nicely. 85 registered, venue locked in, and work under way for fund raising via...
2008-08-01
557 reads
Blogs
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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The String Distance I
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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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