PASS Summit 2013 Schedule
Each year, I like to compile my own shortcut, cheat sheet version of the PASS Summit schedule. I’m not talking...
2013-09-10
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Jen McCown
A Short Treatise on Studying (#mcmstudy)
So I’m studying a lot these days, and I find myself evaluating and reconsidering the theories of “study” that I’ve...
2013-09-09
694 reads
A Better Braindump (#mcm #mcmstudy)
I’m studying my butt off for the soon-to-be-deprecated Microsoft Certified Master cert’s lab – and the three unfinished prerequisite certs I’ve...
2013-09-05
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Terminal #MCM – 30 days to go
We just finished the webshow last night, when one of our chatroom fellows – Nic Cain – told us that the MCM...
2013-08-31
1,182 reads
“Unraveling Tangled Code” recording and downloads!
Last weekend I gave my “Unraveling Tangled Code” talk at SQL Saturday Oklahoma, and they were kind enough to record...
2013-08-30
1,119 reads
Authority as the Enemy: Notes on elections and perceptions in the tech community
Let’s hear a story. The story is true, but elements have been generalized and fictionalized for simplicity, and so’s not...
2013-08-23
606 reads
Social Media as News (and why it thrills me)
The other day I found myself in a discussion about media – print, broadcast, and social – and having to explain why...
2013-08-14
866 reads
Summer absences, upcoming appearances, and…
It’s summer here in the northern hemisphere, and in Texas we’re getting 100F-plus weather pretty consistently. This brain-frying weather may...
2013-08-12
579 reads
TRY, CATCH, and Transactions
The T-SQL TRY/CATCH structure (“new” in SQL 2005!) is, as the professionals say, da bomb. It’s also underused and under-understood,...
2013-06-20
2,409 reads
Why should we upgrade off of SQL Server 2000?
A good many companies still have servers chugging along on SQL Server 2000 (or even, as some of us noted...
2013-06-13
902 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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