Women in technology
Earlier this week a friend of mine (Lynn Swayze (Hall) (b/t)) posted this great article on women in technology. It’s...
2015-11-25
630 reads
Kenneth Fisher
Naught to Speaker pt 3
Becoming a speaker is one heck of a journey. Early this year I submitted a session to speak at Pass...
2015-11-18
615 reads
SSMS Setup
Every time I install a new version of SSMS I make a handful of changes to the default setup. For...
2015-11-16
1,124 reads
Hiding one or more columns
This isn’t something you have to do frequently, but sometimes you don’t want the users to have access to certain...
2015-11-12
672 reads
Why are you still using datetime?
It’s almost Thanksgiving time again! Let’s see, what am I thankful for? T-SQL Tuesday! Someone else get’s to pick a...
2015-11-12 (first published: 2015-11-10)
4,848 reads
Questions from “SQL Server Security for Everyone”
I recently gave my SQL Server Security for Everyone session at Summit 2015. (I’m still in awe about that by...
2015-11-04
516 reads
Administrative Logins and Users
If you’ve ever worked through an audit you have probably gotten a request that looks a lot like this:
Please give...
2015-11-02
504 reads
Generating scripts for previous versions of SQL
I make a habit of using the latest version of SSMS even if I’m not working with the latest version...
2015-10-29 (first published: 2015-10-21)
1,669 reads
Who’s on call
Of all the posts I’ve written I think this one is my favorite, even though it’s not a technical post....
2015-10-28
504 reads
Finding and keeping your #SQLPassion
I consider myself lucky. I fell into a job that I truly enjoy, something that I do for fun even...
2015-10-26
486 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
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...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
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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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