Q&A: Dealing with Thousands of Databases
This is part one of a three-part series. I’ve mentioned in various places, including in blog posts on occasion, that my production SQL Server instance hosts several thousand (nearly...
2019-09-03
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FLX SQL
Q&A: Dealing with Thousands of Databases
This is part one of a three-part series.
I’ve mentioned in various places, including in blog posts on occasion, that my production SQL Server instance hosts several thousand (nearly 9000...
2019-09-03
4 reads
SQL Saturday Boston: I’m Speaking!
It feels like SQL Saturday Albany just wrapped up, but I have another announcement to make. I am proud to announce that I have been selected to speak at...
2019-08-13
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A Day in the Life (4/?) - August 2, 2019
This is my fourth installment in a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog | twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I jotted down most of what I did through the day, filling...
2019-08-06
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SQL Saturday Albany Slides & Demo Code
Thanks to everyone who came out to see dbatools for the Uninitiated at SQL Saturday Albany on July 20th, 2019. I had a lot of fun sharing dbatools with...
2019-07-20
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SQL Saturday Albany NY 2019
I am pleased to announce that I will be presenting at SQL Saturday #855 in Albany, NY on July 20, 2019. Join me at 2 PM in room LC05...
2019-07-08
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dbatools One Point OH YEAH!
Announced at DataGrillen 2019 today, the amazing dbatools PowerShell module has officially released version 1.0. This is a tremendous milestone for the best Open Source project built for data...
2019-06-20
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dbatools One Point OH YEAH!
Announced at DataGrillen 2019 today, the amazing dbatools PowerShell module has officially released version 1.0. This is a tremendous milestone for the best Open Source project built for data...
2019-06-20
5 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #113 -A Database for the Great Outdoors
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday comes from Todd Kleinhans (blog | twitter) who wants to know what we’re doing with databases outside of work.
I’m curious- outside of work and...
2019-04-09
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T-SQL Tuesday #112 - The Cookie Jar
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday comes from Shane O’Neill (blog | twitter). He starts us off with this:
Dipping into the Cookie Jar is about when the going gets tough and...
2019-03-12
6 reads
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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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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