Creating a deep hierarchy with FOR XML
I have two tables in an application that I support. One is called [Report], and the other is [ReportParameter].
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2011-01-27
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Using the MERGE statement
I love MERGE. You know all those awful IF BEGIN END ELSE BEGIN END blocks you need to write for...
2011-01-17
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Wiring up a common click event handler in an ASP.NET page
I was just refactoring a server-side control and ran into some horrible code. Basicaly there was a big listbox that...
2010-12-30
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How to tell if a property exists by name
I recently was working on a library to manage reports in an application (probably a good candidate for an open source project)...
2010-12-29
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AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
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Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
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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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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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