Upcoming Speaking Engagements
In the next few months I will be speaking at some awesome events around Europe.
SQLBits – April 5-8
SQLBits is THE SQL...
2017-02-27
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In the next few months I will be speaking at some awesome events around Europe.
SQLBits – April 5-8
SQLBits is THE SQL...
2017-02-27
605 reads
A couple of years ago I blogged about Installing the SQL Server 2014 Language Reference Help from disk.
With SQL Server 2016...
2016-10-27 (first published: 2016-10-17)
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Today I published the first release of ForumSurfer, a RSS reader designed explicitly to be a tool for the SQL...
2016-08-31
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One of the most popular posts on this bog describes how to enable bitmap scaling is SSMS on high DPI displays,...
2016-08-25 (first published: 2016-08-18)
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Brent Ozar recently published the feedback he got on his abstract submissions for PASS Summit 2016 and, as he often...
2016-06-30
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The next few months will be crazy for me. I will be travelling a lot around Europe, speaking about SQL Server topics.
Here is where...
2016-04-14
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This will be no surprise to those who have been working with SQL Server for a long time, but it...
2016-03-18
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Today, thanks to a customer, I discovered one of those annoying little things that can really drive you nuts.
Basically, they were...
2016-03-01 (first published: 2016-02-23)
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I spent the last few weeks travelling a lot compared to my usual routine and I got quickly fed up...
2015-10-14
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Don’t tell me that you didn’t see it coming: at some point, Developers end up being put to hell by...
2015-07-31
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By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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