There’s no substitute for mentoring
There’s no substitute for mentoring. We’ve heard it before, and in various ways, but I think we tend to largely...
2017-07-18
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Jen McCown
Employees, encourage work from home
The discussion around the last article I wrote on work from home (WFH) has been wonderful, but there is one...
2017-05-22
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Employers, let your people work from home
Work from home is, astoundingly, still not the norm in United States IT offices. This is ludicrous, because employees want...
2017-05-17
440 reads
I’m going to make you love backups
On April 12, I'm going to show you about two dozen ways to make your backups better, easier, faster, and...
2017-04-04
348 reads
The Public Speaking Roadmap
So you look around, and all the cool kids are speaking at SQL Saturdays and PASS Summit and the like....
2017-03-25
330 reads
Compare column names for case sensitivity
I’m reviewing the code for the upcoming Minion CheckDB, and one of the things we’re checking for is case consistency in...
2017-01-25
735 reads
Webinar: Introducing Minion CheckDB!
Minion CheckDB is available for download as of February 1, 2017! In celebration, we’re having a Minion CheckDB webinar on two...
2017-01-19
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Database snapshots for everyone!
If you're lucky enough to have SQL Server 2016, go on and upgrade to SP1....you get extra-lucky special database snapshots...
2017-01-05
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Why won’t my SP work THIS time?
Why won't my SP work? I did this exact thing. You're never too old to do something like this.
The post...
2016-12-09
561 reads
December: A two-line play.
“Wow! A family, a marathon, and two businesses! So how do you keep up with it all?” asked Twitter. “Work-life...
2016-12-05
595 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why End-User Testing Is Even...
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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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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