Review: Gamma Seal Lids
Last weekend I needed to go to Home Depot to get a five gallon bucket and a lid so we...
2011-11-22
708 reads
SQLAndy
Book Review: Highest Duty, My Search For What Really Matters
Highest Duty, My Search For What Really Matters by Chesley Sullenberger is the autobiography of the pilot who landed Flight...
2011-11-21
893 reads
Managing By Walking Around
For a long time a core piece of my ‘style’ has been to wander the halls a couple times a...
2011-11-18
606 reads
Culture Cubes
A while back I posted about Culture Posters, a technique for trying to build your culture by writing down the...
2011-11-17
816 reads
Distance Decreases Stress
When I’m managing I tend to absorb the stress that my teams feel. It’s my job to help them be...
2011-11-17
633 reads
Identify Risk Early
One of the mistakes I see a lot is teams failing to identify risks early and failing to leave time...
2011-11-16
480 reads
The Calendar Driven Organization
I’ve had jobs where I might have one meeting a week, I’ve had a few with some type of daily...
2011-11-15
740 reads
A Plug for IT Pro Camps
Here is something else that started in Florida (doesn’t everything?), a series of events along the lines of Code Camp...
2011-11-14
580 reads
Lists of Words You May Not Know
The Merriam-Webster site has an interesting list of Top 10 Lists, ranging from commonly confused words to things you didn’t...
2011-11-14
642 reads
Culture Shock
The work I’m doing right now has nothing to do with SQL Server, and while it deals with technology, it’s...
2011-11-14
690 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Forums
Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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