Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas is a SQL Server Professional working in the UK where he recently worked as a DBA in women's clothing, not literally he hastens to add! He is certified in SQL Server 2008, runs the Maidenhead SQL Server User Group Pass Chapter and is on the organising committee for SQL Relay. In his spare time plays the trumpet in local symphony orchestras.

His online presence includes:

Blog: http://SQL.RichardDouglas.co.uk

Twitter: http://Twitter.com/SQLRich

LinkedIn: http://www.Linkedin.com/in/RichardPDouglas

Maidenhead User Group: http://www.sqlstudy.org

Interests: Usual stuff: family, SQL Server, shiny things.

New Year Aspirations – Gina Walters – User Groups

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

Thanks for agreeing to do this Gina; from your emails things do sound quite frantic at the moment so I...

2013-02-12

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FLOAT datatype casting issue

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

Do you use the FLOAT datatype? If so you had better read this……
Today I came across an issue somebody posted...

2013-02-01

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New Year Aspirations – Christian Bolton – Author

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

As a former mentor Christian is used to me asking him all sorts of random questions, but this time it’s...

2013-01-29

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New Year Aspirations – Annette Allen – WiT

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

Thanks for agreeing to do this Annette, with your SQL Saturday event only a few weeks away thing must be...

2013-01-28

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New Years Aspirations – Kevin Kline – Presenting

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

I’ve been very privileged to be able to work alongside Kevin on a few projects during our time together at...

2013-01-25

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New Year Aspirations – Jonathan Allen – DBA

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

Thanks for agreeing to do this Jonathan, I know you’re busy with arrangements for SQL Saturday #194 in Exeter

Before we...

2013-01-24

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SQLSaturday 194 (Exeter)

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

It’s an exciting time for SQL Server Professionals in the South West of the UK, we’re now just a few...

2013-01-24

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New Year Aspirations – Gavin Payne – MCA

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

Thanks for agreeing to do this Gavin. It’s great to be able to interview an MCA as there are so...

2013-01-23

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New Year Aspirations – boB Taylor – MCM

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

Thanks for agreeing to do this boB. It’s great to be able to interview the Microsoft program manager for the...

2013-01-22

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New Year Aspirations – Thomas La Rock – Blogging

by Richard Douglas

Richard Douglas

Most readers will know you already, but before we start on the main part of the interview, tell us all...

2013-01-21

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Blogs

Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff

Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...

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...

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Forums

Dynamic Unpivot

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Writing as an Art and a Job

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String Similarity II

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String Similarity II

What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?

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