SmartPaster
I recently discovered this great little free Visual Studio Add-in that allows pasting text as preformatted strings in VB or...
2012-02-02
819 reads
Case Sensitive searches in T-SQL
I just ran into an issue with one of my applications where a SQL statement had updated a status code...
2012-01-19
2,712 reads
Excel for the DBA, Part 1–The Basics
This will be a series of handy hints for people that know SQL and are frustrated by Excel. I am...
2011-12-06
2,114 reads
An Attempt to Make SSIS Package Deployment More Reasonable
Full disclosure: There might be a better way to do this. I am not aware of it.
Problems:
Maintaining multiple DB environments...
2011-11-03
1,468 reads
Save a step: Using Computed Columns in a Table Variable (or Temp Table)
One of the databases that I support reports all money values in both the local currency and US Dollars. Very...
2011-10-28
15,197 reads
Tobias Ternstrom’s Great Denali Preview
Tobias Ternstrom from Microsoft gave a great talk at Tech Ed regarding upcoming features of SQL Server Denali. His presentation...
2011-06-30
2,222 reads
The Recursive CTE
(Yet another boring org chart example – except this one has multiple roots)
One of my apps has a hierarchial org chart...
2011-05-18
1,695 reads
How to determine the current SSIS runtime environment
If you want to test if you’re currently debugging an SSIS package via BIDS/Visual Studio, or running normally via DTExec,...
2011-04-28
2,412 reads
Renumbering Rows in a Table Variable (or Table/Temp Table)
I was recently working on a data cleanup problem where I had to do lots of comparisons of one row...
2011-02-24
2,097 reads
Renumbering Rows in a Table Variable (or Table/Temp Table)
I was recently working on a data cleanup problem where I had to do lots of comparisons of one row...
2011-02-18
4,300 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
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why End-User Testing Is Even...
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Writing as an Art and...
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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