Tool Review: TaskSwitchXP
For longer than I care to count I've used the Alt-Tab Powertoy from MS to get a nicer view of...
2008-07-23
1,291 reads
Blog Posts
Blogging Thoughts - Part 1
One of the things I've been looking at is different blogging styles and trying to figure out which to recommend...
2008-07-22
1,327 reads
Building Better VMs
The other day I fired up my old desktop, intending to use it as background in the podcasts. It gave...
2008-07-22
999 reads
Disabling Indexes Published on SQLServerCentral.com
It's been a while since I had anything up on SSC, a combination of Steve being in good shape on...
2008-07-22
487 reads
Tool Review: Password Safe
I think we all struggle to keep up with various credentials needed to live our internet lives (single sign on...
2008-07-21
542 reads
Delayed gratification
Call me odd, but I enjoy taking certification tests. It may be that I've always tested well, or perhaps it's...
2008-07-20
667 reads
Why Are Stored Procedures Too Hard?
Recently I was going through the buy or build process on a small segment of functionality needed for a project,...
2008-07-20
854 reads
Patching
Probably the least enjoyable thing about being a DBA is patching servers. We received the bad news in the July MS...
2008-07-19
1,911 reads
Follow Up Notes on the Custom Whiteboard
A few months back I posted about our latest whiteboard and I thought I'd report back with an update. Initially...
2008-07-17
512 reads
JSSUG Speaking Event: Reporting Services 2008
We had a great group of about 35 people last night at the JSSUG (Jacksonville SQL Server User Group) meeting....
2008-07-17
715 reads
Blogs
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,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Microsoft Security Changes and SQL...
Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Downtime Caused by the Postgres...
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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