Joe

With over 25 years of data experience, I've been through the ringer, solving some of the weirdest problems you can imagine. I've done Performance Tuning, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Replication, RCA and general troubleshooting in industries from health care, finance, software, manufacturing, logistics, and more -- both on-premises and in AWS and Azure Cloud platforms. I've got a passion for helping others and was a PASS Chapter Leader and Regional Mentor for several years. Always looking for new challenges, I started consulting in 2015 and became an independent consultant in 2022.
  • Interests: Disc Golf, Car Detailing, Fixing random broken things, solving weird problems, giving unsolicited advice
  • Skills: SQL Server - HADR, Tuning, Replication, Cloud migration; AWS - SQL Right-sizing, migrations, performance improvement

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AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands

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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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