Moving The Bottleneck
Most of you probably get that there will always be a bottleneck in a system. You implement a fix in...
2013-07-24
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SQLAndy
I Learned Something From You
I learned something from you – that was something someone said to me at the end of a recent consulting engagement....
2013-07-23
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Upscale Bowling
I don’t bowl often, maybe once a year at best. It’s a fun way to spend a couple hours – I...
2013-07-22
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Security Cameras in the Neighborhood
I live in a pleasant, calm, middle class neighborhood. Not much crime here, at most the rare break-in or vandalism,...
2013-07-19
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More on Finding Bad Links On Your Blog
Yesterday I mentioned using the Google Webmaster Tools to identify some bad URL’s here on the blog. I decided to...
2013-07-19
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Fixing Bad Links Found Using Google Webmaster Tools
I’ve been doing various clean up tasks this week related to the blog, with part of that being a review...
2013-07-18
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PASS Security Virtual Chapter & Security Topics at PASS Summit
I just saw a post from Brian Kelley about the new PASS Security Virtual Chapter launching and the first presentation...
2013-07-17
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Speakers Announced for SQLSaturday #232 in Orlando
It’s done, finally! The sessions for SQLSaturday #232 have been selected and the schedule is available for viewing. We have...
2013-07-17
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PCI Compliance Presentation on July 17, 2013
Next week I’ll be doing a new presentation about PCI compliance – aka dealing with credit cards – online (follow this link...
2013-07-09
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Notes from the 2013 American Association of Woodturners Symposium
This was my first time attending the AAW Symposium, hosted by the American Association of Woodturners. Here are some quick...
2013-07-02
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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