Magazines I Read This Year
In December I went through my current magazine list and made some changes, mostly based on what I had been...
2012-02-03
639 reads
SQLAndy
SQL Stickers–Someone Should Build It
Here’s a niche idea that someone might have some fun with, build a site where someone can request some or...
2012-02-02
1,157 reads
Speaking at Space Coast SQL Users Group on Feb 9, 2012
I’ll be visiting the Space Coast group (http://spacecoast.sqlpass.org/) on Feb 9th to do a presentation on Professional Development Plans. I’m...
2012-02-01
731 reads
Review: ICE-21 Ice Cream Maker
I’ve had making home made ice cream on my list of things to try for a while, since watching an...
2012-01-31
1,660 reads
The Idera ACE Program, So Far
The Idera ACE program is something I’ve been involved with for over a year now. I’ll share a bit of...
2012-01-30
1,669 reads
Apply to Be A 2012 Idera ACE!
The call for applications is open today, a chance for six lucky people to do more in the SQL community...
2012-01-30
700 reads
Petitions on Change.org and Thoughts on Changing PASS
I tried this out – Change.org that is – recently as part of a post about PASS and wanted to post a...
2012-01-28
789 reads
2012-01-27
701 reads
Windows 8 Easy Refresh?
I saw this write up about the built in ability to both restore to factory settings as well as just...
2012-01-25
655 reads
A New SSD For My Laptop
I’ve managed to get by for more than 3 years with the original 64G SSD in my laptop, but lately...
2012-01-24
1,229 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