Want to be able to read your database between restores?
When restoring a database there are times when it would nice to restore a bit, check what’s been restored so...
2016-07-20
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Kenneth Fisher
Is the network your last performance bottleneck?
Let’s say your company relies on the cloud for its servers (or maybe not, on premise networks have more options...
2016-07-18
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Altering a column in a large table: A case study
Fair warning, this is a discussion piece. I had a task, I went through several possibilities and I’m going to...
2016-07-14
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Default database file sizes
It’s Chris Yates (b/t) birthday! (I think he just tured 19.) And in honor of his birthday we are writing...
2016-07-12
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Finding, disabling and enabling foreign keys
Foreign keys are a classic method of enforcing RI (Referential Integrity). Unfortunately though, they can get in the way if...
2016-07-11 (first published: 2016-06-29)
1,957 reads
Zilch to Speaker: 2016 Summit Abstract Reviews
Steve Jones (b/t) has been asking people to post their Pass Summit submissions and the reviews that came back, along...
2016-07-07
446 reads
Perfectly Placed Parentheses
Like many other programming languages T-SQL uses parentheses () for a number of tasks. To help determine precedence, function calls etc....
2016-07-05 (first published: 2016-06-27)
2,842 reads
Phantom SSIS Changes
That SSIS change just won’t stick! There is a new business requirement, so now you have to change an existing...
2016-07-05
994 reads
Minimizing Cloud cost
The cloud can be expensive. I had this hammered home the other day by a simple mistake. I’m currently working...
2016-06-27 (first published: 2016-06-20)
1,474 reads
Database snapshots
This feature is Enterprise only which can limit who it is useful to, but I find the whole concept fascinating....
2016-06-22
511 reads
Blogs
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...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
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Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
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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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