Andy Warren

I started my SQL journey here at SQLServerCentral as one of the founders, helping to build a place to share and learn that continues to thrive under the editorial guidance of my friend Steve Jones. I've done a lot of volunteer work over the years ranging from our local SQL group (oPASS, SQLOrlando) to serving on the Board of Directors of PASS to designing and building the framework of SQLSaturday (which has gone on to produce more than 1000 locally managed events since we started in 2007). These days I manage a DBA team, but over the years I've been a trainer, consultant, contractor, and DBA. I'm rarely present on social media, the best way to contact me is here, LinkedIn, or via email.

Speaker Selection for SQLSaturday Orlando-Group #2

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Four more speakers we’re pleased to have joining us at SQLSaturday #151 this fall in Orlando!

Paul Waters
Mike Antonovich
David Liebman
Bradley Schacht

2012-06-28

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A Fire Drill and Voter Registration

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I avoid politics here, a discussion best done in other places, but hope you’ll enjoy some thoughts about a recent...

2012-06-26

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SQLRally 2012 Eval Scores

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I was just browsing the results of the presentations at SQLRally 2012. I ended up with a evaluation average of...

2012-06-25

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Back From Vacation

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

As you may surmise from my previous post I’m back from vacation. I was as unplugged as I’ve been in...

2012-06-21

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Vacation Notes

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I wrote this over the course of 10 days, so it’s a bit rambling, but maybe you’ll find a good...

2012-06-20

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On Break

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I’m at Orlando International as I write this, about to fly to Parsippany for meetings today and tomorrow, then back...

2012-06-06

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No More SQLRally In the US

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I was disappointed to see the mention in the Connector today that there would be no SQLRally 2013 in the...

2012-05-31

1,692 reads

The Rules of Gibbs

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

It’s been interesting to watch the characters evolve on NCIS over the years, something that can only happen with time...

2012-05-29

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Unsubscribing

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

One of the things I’ve been doing lately is pruning (again) the number of newsletter type emails I get. Some...

2012-05-28

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Building a Presentation Map

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

This idea came up during a critique of a presentation. I may have re-invented (or re-labeled) something that is already...

2012-05-25

620 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

This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...

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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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