To refer and to be referred
Referrals have never been more important in the job market. They’re no longer nice to have; in many cases, they’re what gets your résumé through the door. I’ve been...
2026-10-02 (first published: 2026-09-21)
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Mala Mahadevan
Part 3 of 3: Tuning DiskANN — R, Alpha, L, Beam Width, Recall and Latency
In Part 1, we saw how ‘Vamana’ represents vectors as nodes, connects them with edges, and uses greedy graph traversal to avoid comparing a query against every vector in...
2026-09-23 (first published: 2026-09-14)
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Exploring DiskANN: Part 2: PQ, SSDs, caching and beam search
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically provided by me,including examples.Grammarly to catch grammar and sentence construction errors. In Part 1, we...
2026-09-16 (first published: 2026-09-08)
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Exploring DiskANN: Part I: Understanding the Algorithm before the disk
How I used AI for this postChatGPT to generate images based on info specifically provided by me,including examples.Grammarly to catch grammar and sentence construction errors. I did a presentation...
2026-09-09 (first published: 2026-08-27)
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T-SQL Tuesday #200: Bad Query signals
NO AI was used to generate this content. Grammarly was used to check and correct language and sentences in parts. I just managed to get a post in for...
2026-07-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally my go-to guy for data lakes and BI architecture. I am so tickled to be...
2026-03-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #193 – Notes to past and future me
The last T-SQL Tuesday of the year is hosted by my good friend Mike Walsh. Mike’s call for us is to end the year on a poignant note –...
2025-12-24 (first published: 2025-12-09)
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TSQL Tuesday #189: How is AI changing our careers
This month’s TSQL Tuesday invite is from my good friend, long standing MVP and community volunteer Taiob Ali – Taiob’s call is to blog on how AI, (the biggest...
2025-08-13
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TSQL Tuesday #188 Growing community
I am responding late to a T-SQL Tuesday invite from John Sterrett. John’s call is about various ways to grow young data community/speakers. I’m going to take a brief...
2025-07-13
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Ethics, Productivity, Age and AI:How do these correlate with Developers’ Stances Towards AI at work, 2024
AI is deemed to be the new superpower. Adoption of AI in various capacities is at 72% across industries, world wide, according to one study, and it does not...
2025-07-01
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Blogs
The SUM of Nothing: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I caught this interesting item over on Pinal Dave’s blog: Eleven Interview Questions that...
How to Move the SSMS Status Bar to the Top and Color-Code SQL Server Connections
By Hemantgiri
I use color-coded connections in SSMS to distinguish Production, Pre-Production, UAT, and Development. But...
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Smart AI Agents and Data Security
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RegEx Functions IV
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Question of the Day
RegEx Functions IV
I have this data in a table in a SQL Server 2025 database:
EmailAddressID EmailAddress 7 dylan0@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COM 8 Diane1@ADVENTURE-WORKS.COMIf I run this query, which row(s) are returned?
SELECT top 10 * FROM person.EmailAddress WHERE REGEXP_LIKE(EmailAddress, '^D', 'i') AND BusinessEntityID IN (7,8)See possible answers