Spackle: Making sure you can connect to the DAC
The DAC is an important tool and several things can go wrong when trying to connect to it.
2014-07-31
3,293 reads
Kenneth Fisher
Add them to ALL the roles!
I seem to get a lot of permissions questions these days and one of the more frequent ones goes along...
2014-07-28 (first published: 2014-07-21)
8,662 reads
Why am I getting a primary/unique key violation?
This may seem like a question with a simple answer but there is a bit more to it than you...
2014-07-23
1,604 reads
Yes, Virginia, you can have too much white space.
When I was in college and taking programming classes (back in the days when “a T-Rex ate my 5.25 inch...
2014-07-22 (first published: 2014-07-16)
9,132 reads
What does it mean that a value is NULL?
Let’s start by assuming that ANSI_NULLS are ON. If you aren’t sure what ANSI_NULLS are exactly, don’t worry, I’ll be...
2014-07-15 (first published: 2014-07-14)
10,901 reads
Single Quotation Marks in SQL
One of the common problems is dealing with apostrophes in T-SQL. This article examines the challenges of single quotation marks and ends with a short quiz.
2014-07-11 (first published: 2013-01-03)
36,233 reads
db_ddladmin and the SSMS table designer
If you want to grant a user the ability to create/alter/delete any table, SP, function etc in a database you...
2014-07-10
970 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #56: Assumptions
I assume that since it’s the second Tuesday of the month that it’s time for T-SQL Tuesday. And you can...
2014-07-08
850 reads
Argenis and the unicorn hoodie
Early yesterday Kirsten Benzel(b/t) announced something very exciting, at least exciting to me. Argenis Fernandez(b/t) has agreed to wear a...
2014-07-02
698 reads
2014-07-01
8,394 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...
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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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