ODBC DSN on 32/64 Bit Systems
Funny how you can work with data a long time and still run into something new. I’ve been working on...
2011-07-06
748 reads
SQLAndy
Deleting Accounts from Websites
I ran across this article about How to Delete an Account from Any Website on the PC Magazine web site....
2011-07-05
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Book Review: Hour of the Horde
Hour of the Horde by Gordon R. Dickson ($1-5 @ Amazon) is an interesting story. The basic plot is that one...
2011-07-01
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2011-06-30
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Google Correlate
My friend Rob Hatton pointed me to Google Correlate, a new service that lets you explore data trends in a...
2011-06-30
1,791 reads
Energy Efficient Offices
I work with a client that recently moved into a newly renovated space in a smaller office building. The renovation...
2011-06-29
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Attention Speakers–Sign Up for SQLSaturday #85 in Orlando!
Our call for speakers for #85 will be open about another 10 days, and then Bradley Ball can jump into...
2011-06-28
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PASS Update #58 (Elections)
Last year we had some problems with our annual election, enough problems that clearly we needed to do a deeper...
2011-06-27
671 reads
Growing Leaders
Here’s a two part story(Part 1, Part 2 from Information Week by Larry Tieman you should read. There’s a great...
2011-06-24
893 reads
Indexes Aren’t Always the Answer
There’s a tendency to think all problems can be solved with an index or two (or partitions, or other performance...
2011-06-20
981 reads
Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers