An Update on My Dell E6500
I bought my E6500 almost three years ago, giving away what was a perfectly good Latitude to trade up to...
2011-06-17
560 reads
SQLAndy
Used Book Stores and Vacation Reading
I took a vacation recently (well, a really long weekend) and as I like to do, visited a few book...
2011-06-16
672 reads
PASS Update #57-Board Benefits, Travel, and Meetings
From time to time I get asked about how PASS Board members are compensated, so I thought it would make...
2011-06-15
688 reads
Hash Tag Art
I haven’t tried this, but run across a reference to hashtagart that looks pretty interesting as a way to use...
2011-06-14
631 reads
PASS Update #56-SQLRally 2012 Site Selection
Note: This is a good, bad, and ugly post. We took some chances, got some things right, got more than...
2011-06-13
989 reads
Book Review: Make the Impossible Possible: One Man”s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary
I finished reading Make the Impossible Possible: One Man”s Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary...
2011-06-10
791 reads
What Color Were You On Today?
The school my daughter attends gives each student a workbook type thing at the beginning of each year, and it...
2011-06-09
601 reads
Another Idea for SQLSaturday
I spend a lot of time just looking at events, watching for new ideas. At our recent SQLRally we had...
2011-06-07
640 reads
Just Deserts
Here’s another photo from my phone, this one from SQLSaturday Tampa in the cafeteria area. An easy typo to make,...
2011-06-02
604 reads
An Unexpected Service Gotcha
Recently I was participating in a round of storage rearranging with a client (aka the storage dance) which consisted of...
2011-05-31
1,554 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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...
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