0 to Speaker
Recently the last day to submit a session for the 2015 Pass Summit rolled around. I mention this because I...
2015-03-23
699 reads
Kenneth Fisher
Why not NOLOCK?
Most senior DBAs I’ve met shudder when they hear NOLOCK. Ever wonder why? For the same reason they shudder at...
2015-03-18
1,228 reads
Who’s using that database?
A common problem when trying to alter a database (take it offline, add a filegroup, whatever) is that someone else...
2015-03-17 (first published: 2015-03-09)
7,450 reads
There are #temp tables and then there are ##temp tables.
Temporary tables are a common enough thing in T-SQL that most of us have probably used them on a fairly...
2015-03-16
669 reads
Using Solutions in SSMS
There are a handful of scripts I use on a regular basis. Adam Mechanic’s (b/t) sp_WhoIsActive, My sp_DBPermissions and sp_SrvPermissions,...
2015-03-11
1,232 reads
I want to blog but …
I don’t know how to get started.
Pretty simple. There are a number of free blogging sites out there. Personally I...
2015-03-04
665 reads
Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 2
Feb 16, 2015
Dear Diary,
A few weeks back I introduced HAL002 to a database managed by some annoying devs. They were...
2015-03-04 (first published: 2015-02-23)
7,508 reads
SQL Judo’s Monthly Challenge – March 2014 – Powershell something
Every month SQL Judo (Russ Thomas) (b/t) challenges us to do his Monthly DBA Challenge. I’ve decided it would be...
2015-03-02
801 reads
Tales of a DBA fed up with NOLOCK. Part 1
Nov 12, 2014
Dear Diary,
They asked for help again. Every now and again everything slows down and they see a lot...
2015-02-26 (first published: 2015-02-16)
8,762 reads
Using sp_DBPermissions and sp_SrvPermissions v6.0
It’s been a while since I posted an updated to usp_DBPermissions and usp_SrvPermissions. Sorry. I got lazy with my posting....
2015-02-25
1,291 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
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Writing as an Art and...
String Similarity II
Comments posted to this topic are about the item String Similarity II
Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
See possible answers