Community work
I have been really busy lately with articles, podcasts and so forth. Lately I have been working on 2 public...
2016-04-16
148 reads
Arun Sirpal
SQL Bite-Size Podcasts are live!
Well, after many late nights I have finally produced a set of podcasts – Bite size style – therefore called SQL Bite...
2016-03-27
278 reads
SQL Server Podcasts
Great news, I have decided to do some podcasts on the fundamentals of SQL Server, my aim is to help...
2016-03-23
391 reads
SQL Server articles
Between attending SQL SKILLS immersion events, trying out for the PFE role at Microsoft I have managed to write some...
2016-03-16
187 reads
Creating SQL databases on Azure Blob storage
Creating a database in SQL Server running in on-premises with a dedicated storage location for your data in Windows Azure Blob Storage.
2015-09-17
4,234 reads
An Extended Event script
I have been enjoying XE alot recently ( from following SQLSKILLS) so I decided to write something that I used recently...
2015-05-22
153 reads
Carving up CHECKDB
This is a technique that I am using from Paul Randal – concept of splitting CHECKDB: CHECKALLOC, CHECKCATALOG and CHECKTABLE – here...
2015-05-16
180 reads
Welcome to BlobEater
I am an IT Professional from the UK with a huge interest in MS technology especially SQL Server and Azure. During...
2015-03-25
309 reads
A Handy function
If you like learning about internals use the undocumented function to get the FileID:PageID of your table rows and use...
2015-03-03
171 reads
Timed SQL Server tracing
Have you ever wanted to start a SQL trace (server-side trace!) from SQL agent and let it stop after X minutes...
2015-02-07
248 reads
Blogs
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
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...
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
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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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