Invitation to T-SQL Tuesday #040: File and Filegroup Wisdom
Hello and welcome to the third T-SQL Tuesday of 2013!
Over three years ago, Adam Machanic (Twitter) dreamed up the idea...
2013-03-05
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Jen McCown
FileTable: SQL Server 2012's little gasp-maker
When was the last time you looked at a SQL Server new feature list and said, “Ohhh, WOW!”? Was it...
2013-03-02
1,817 reads
We’re Live on the PowerScripting Podcast! (Thursday night, 02-28)
Your MidnightDBAs
Unusually, Sean and I will be guests on someone else’s podcast this week! Tune in live to our PowerScripting...
2013-02-27
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23 Pieces of News and Fluffery (Feb 9-15)
I have a news segment on DBAs@Midnight (our live weekly webshow, tune in tonight at 11pm Central time), but there’s...
2013-02-15
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#CISPA’s Coming Back: Time to Pay Attention Again
Update: The President’s cybersecurity Executive Order was signed and released today (see the Wired article). “Although the order comes after...
2013-02-12
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Install .NET Framework using #Powershell (#TSQL2sday!)
One of the really great things about being married to an MCM is that I can steal recycle his blogs,...
2013-02-12
1,206 reads
Clustering Concepts for the Common Man
SQL Server clusters are widely used, and widely misunderstood, which makes people like our good friend (and clustering MVP) Allan...
2013-01-29
1,441 reads
Talking on Purpose
Last year I stepped into the intimidating (and slightly effervescent) waters of the consulting world, and found great success. This...
2013-01-10
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T-SQL: CASE Statement
For the month of December, I’ll be taking a little holiday from blogging. In the meantime, enjoy a few of...
2012-12-11 (first published: 2012-12-03)
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Great Tools for Formatting T-SQL
For the month of December, I’ll be taking a little holiday from blogging. In the meantime, enjoy a few of...
2012-12-10
1,205 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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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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