Varied and Interesting Links
Here are some things I’ve run across in the past few weeks you may find interesting:
FailCon. Billed as a one-day...
2012-05-14
571 reads
SQLAndy
SQLRally 2012-Closing Thoughts
It was interesting to watch an event that started 17 months ago with Dallas, Nashville, and Denver submitting applications to...
2012-05-12
1,156 reads
SQLRally 2012-Friday
Started the day early, heading to the Convention Center to be at Starbucks at 6:45 for the networking event I...
2012-05-12
951 reads
SQLRally 2012–Thursday
Arrived at the convention center about 7:30, managed to arrive at the right end of the convention center and walked...
2012-05-11
710 reads
Logical Fallacy Poster
Ran across this recently, YourLogicalFallacyIs.com is a site that lists all the ways you can apply logic badly, and they’ve...
2012-05-10
863 reads
SQLRally 2012–Wednesday
Had a nice lunch at On The Border at Orlando International before my flight, used that time to finish some...
2012-05-10
629 reads
My Garden Update
It’s been just over two months since I started my small home garden. The initial work to clear the area...
2012-05-08
653 reads
Moving from Droid X to Droid Razr Maxx
It’s been not quite two years since I moved from a Blackberry to a Droid X. The X turned out...
2012-05-07
535 reads
My Evolving Goals for Attending Conferences
The first conference I went to back in 1999 I attended every session, the bonus sessions, the breakfasts, everything. It...
2012-05-07
941 reads
Kindle Fire Parental Controls
I blogged a while back about not having the ability to easily disable purchasing on the Kindle. Until recently we...
2012-05-05
479 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