SQLSaturday #44!
Andrew Karcher and Marlon Ribunal are heading up SQLSaturday #44 scheduled for April 24, 2010 at Golden West College in...
2010-03-03
334 reads
SQLAndy
Notes from the 2010 South Florida Code Camp
Drove down with the family Friday afternoon, not much traffic and a smooth trip. Checked into the Residence Inn just...
2010-03-03
452 reads
Kindle for the Blackberry
Saw the announcement by accident while doing some browsing on Amazon. Thought I’d try it out just to see. Download...
2010-03-02
226 reads
How Do You Drive Your DBA Mad?
I’ve written about a few ‘worst practices’ over the years to call attention to some things that are bad (or...
2010-03-01
1,582 reads
Book Review: Orbit by John J. Nance
Just finished re-reading Orbit ($15 or less at Amazon) after picking it up for a $1 at Books a Million...
2010-02-26
1,561 reads
I’m Attending the South Florida Code Camp on February 27, 2010
I’m driving down tomorrow for the sixth annual South Florida Code Camp. This will be my third time attending and...
2010-02-25
522 reads
Growing the Pool of SQL Speakers – Part 2
About a week ago I wrote Part 1, and got some interesting feedback (which I appreciate). Today I want to...
2010-02-25
862 reads
Featured Blog: Aloha DBA
If you’ve been around SQL for any length of time it’s hard not to have heard of Brad McGehee, the...
2010-02-24
565 reads
What Would You Do? Management Scenario #1
I’m in the early stages of a book on managing and I’m starting to look for situations that might trigger...
2010-02-23
1,099 reads
City of Orlando Switches to Google Email
This happened earlier in the year, finally getting around to writing some notes on it – you can read more here....
2010-02-22
732 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...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
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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