Avi Niv is a senior consultant at Madeira. He is an expert in SQL Server administration and development. He has over 8 years of experience with SQL Server as well as with system infrastructures and with development projects.

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Mind the Gap

Recently we deployed database mirroring in an environment with an Active Directory. The process is usually quite simple and straight-forward,...

2014-03-04

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Memory Timeouts

Recently I was asked to investigate a timeout issue that was causing SSIS package executions to fail.
The timeouts seemed to...

2013-12-30

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AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands

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The Book of Redgate: Mistakes

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ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel

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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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