Catching Up On SQLOrlando
Somehow two years have elapsed since my last update; hopefully it won’t be that long before the next one. My last post was about SQLSaturday Orlando 2023. Since then,...
2026-01-16 (first published: 2026-01-03)
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SQLAndy
SQLSaturday Orlando Scheduled for October 7, 2023
The call for speakers is open! We’re always excited to have experienced and past speakers return (Rob Volk!), but if you’re a first time or relatively new speaker just...
2023-07-07
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Notes from SQLSaturday South Florida 2023
Quick notes on the event this year: Overall a good event and now I have a few months until SQLSaturday in Orlando in October.
2023-07-21 (first published: 2023-07-06)
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Notes from SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2023
Year 15 for Jacksonville! SQLSaturday Jax was held on May 6 this year, back at the usual location on the campus of the University of North Florida. At the...
2023-06-23 (first published: 2023-06-13)
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Notes on SQLSaturday Orlando 2022
First, the numbers. We registered 240 people, had about 110 on site. That’s definitely better than last year and still quite a bit under what it was pre-Covid. I’ll...
2022-11-04 (first published: 2022-10-19)
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SQLSaturday Orlando on October 8, 2022
This year we’re back at our usual location on the campus of Seminole State College for SQLSaturday #1030. You may remember that last year we couldn’t use the college...
2022-08-01 (first published: 2022-07-25)
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Notes on SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2022
I drove up to Jacksonville Friday afternoon to allow for bad traffic and immediately hit bad traffic, all four lanes of I-4 blocked that resulted in a 30 minute...
2022-05-24
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Notes on the 2021 PASS Summit
I attended the three main days this year and wrote notes as I went. As I sat down to type them up I started by going back to look...
2021-11-19 (first published: 2021-11-14)
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Notes on SQLSaturday Orlando 2021
We held an in-person SQLSaturday here in Orlando last weekend (Oct 30th). We didn’t organize one last year, there was just too much risk and too much uncertainty, so...
2021-11-17 (first published: 2021-11-10)
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Notes on SQLSaturday Orlando 2021
We held an in-person SQLSaturday here in Orlando last weekend (Oct 30th). We didn’t organize one last year, there was just too much risk and too much uncertainty, so...
2021-11-10
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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
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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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