There’s A New North Central Regional Mentor
What has two thumbs and just signed on to be a PASS Regional Mentor? This guy!
Over the past couple weeks,...
2011-03-17
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StrateSQL
Happy Pi Day
Here’s wishing you a Happy Pi Day…
Pi in Pie Pan
If my picture isn’t good enough, here’s a better representation of...
2011-03-14
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March PASSMN Meeting This Week
I mentioned the PASSMN meeting last week and thought a reminder might be worthwhile. Just in case you head has...
2011-03-13
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Aggregating With Correlated Sub-Queries #tsql2sday
It’s that time of the month again. Time for T-SQL Tuesday! This month’s event is being hosted by Jes Schultz...
2011-03-08
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SSWUG DBTechCon Coming Up
Over the last few years, I’ve blogged about and spoke at the SSWUG Virtual Conferences. It’s that time of the...
2011-03-07
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XQuery for the Non-Expert – Aggregates
Follow the rest of this series at the XQuery for the Non-Expert – X-Query Resources introduction post.
Talk to the Experts
In the...
2011-03-07
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March PASSMN Meeting Announced
Come one, come all to the March PASSMN meeting – that’s the Minnesota SQL Server User Group. This month we’re going...
2011-03-04
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TechFuse 2011 – This Month
If you’re looking for a day of training in the Twin Cities, then check out Benchmark Learning’s2011 TechFuse event. The...
2011-03-02
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FileSystemHelper Update and Release
About a year ago, I started playing around with CLR and my desire to disable xp_cmdshell for my clients. As...
2011-02-23
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SSWUG Free SSIS Expo – Today!
SSWUG Free Expo Event: Basic and Complex SSIS Features virtual conference is today! There’s a chance that you can probably...
2011-02-18
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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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