SSRS Subscription E-Mail Error
It is that time again. This time coming to you from a Mcdonald’s so my son can get out some energy, and it is 105 degrees outside. This will...
2022-07-19
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Connecting to an Azure SQL Database
Are you starting to experiment with Azure SQL Databases? Is your company interested in moving to the Cloud and asking you to investigate different options? This blog will show...
2022-01-08
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How Long has Your SQL Server Been Online
This week’s blog post will help you check your SQL Servers up-time. There are numerous reasons I can think of that you would want to know how long your...
2021-12-15 (first published: 2021-12-07)
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Decoding SSRS Subscription Agent Jobs
Hello and welcome back… It has been a few months since I have published a blog post. More like 126 days, to be exact. Unfortunately, I have been dealing...
2021-11-22 (first published: 2021-11-16)
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Quickly Identify Configuration Drift In Your Environment
As you sit and wonder about when the next Star Wars movie is going to come out, do you ever get the thought of “I wonder if all my...
2021-08-04 (first published: 2021-07-13)
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Where are my SQL Server Errors?
Have you ever opened the SQL Server Error Log and wondered, “where are all the errors?” Digging through the Error Log to find what you need can be a...
2021-06-02 (first published: 2021-05-20)
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SQL Agent Jobs – When Success is Failure
Have you ever run across an issue that made you take a step back and scratch your head? Recently, I had this exact situation hit my Inbox. One of...
2021-03-31
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T-SQL Tuesday #135 – Tools Used for Getting Organized
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is being hosted by Mikey Bronowski. The subject he chose is “The outstanding tools of the trade that make your job awesome.” Tools are the...
2021-02-09
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What is a model database?
Do you ever take a look at SSMS in the System Databases section? People that are new to SQL Server might or might not know much about these essential...
2021-02-04 (first published: 2021-01-26)
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[MSSQLTIPS] Rookie of the Year Candidate – Vote for ME
Welcome to the New Year of 2021. For some people I know, they might prefer to forget most if not all of 2020. Personally, I am not one...
2021-01-04
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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
By Steve Jones
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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