How to use tSQLt unit test framework with a SQL Server database in a docker container
This blog post describes how to add the tSQLt unit testing framework to a database running in a docker container....
2018-12-29
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HeyMo0sh
SQL Server services will not start automatically after server reboots
This blog post is about a situation where after windows patching the SQL Server service and SQL Server Agent services...
2018-12-17
288 reads
Setting up CentOS to run docker for SQL Server
This blog post is about running SQL Server in a docker container on CentOS Linux distribution.
This was both an experiment...
2018-12-13
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Connecting to SQL Server 2017 using Visual Studio 2017 and getting “An incompatible SQL Server version detected”
This blog post details the error you may get when using Visual Studio 2017 and you get errors that you...
2018-10-24 (first published: 2018-10-13)
1,921 reads
This is a company that practises what they preach
How good is a company at engaging with their user base? Obviously when things are going great then it’s wins...
2018-10-22
954 reads
Getting error “unable to parse remote unpack status” when attempting to push to Azure Repo in Azure DevOps
This blog post is about a situation where I went to push my latest local changes to my git repository...
2018-09-27
800 reads
Why you should always build an Azure based VM in a Resource Group
This blog post is based on conversations I witnessed between MVPs around commissioning and more importantly de-commissioning virtual machines (VMs)...
2018-09-26
750 reads
How to sync user logins across SQL Server instances – dbatools is brilliant
This blog post is about how brilliant dbatools are. In this case – for syncing user logins between SQL Server instances.
Background:
Whenever...
2018-04-13
1,058 reads
How to change the TFS Agent _work folder
This blog post is about how to change the default work folder _work that TFS agents use when building a...
2018-04-10
590 reads
Use Boot Diagnostics to see what your Azure VM is doing at boot time
This blog post is about how to diagnose what your Azure VM is doing while it is booting.
I have a...
2018-04-06 (first published: 2018-04-04)
1,642 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
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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