Speaking at Auckland, New Zealand SQL Users Group
On Tuesday Morning at 2:00 am EST time I will be speaking at the Auckland SQLUsers Group. This will be...
2010-04-25
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Patrick LeBlanc
SQL Server 2008 R2 Road Show Recap
This past week I had the opportunity to speak at three SQL Server R2 Launch events.I spoke in three cities...
2010-04-23
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Editing Saved Packages
During my last SQLLunch, Introduction to SSIS, I was asked an interesting question by one of the attendees. He asked,...
2010-04-15
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Speaking Twice This Week
This week I will have the opportunity to speak at two different events. The first is on Monday, April 12th,...
2010-04-11
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Minimizing Fragmentation when Moving data using a Switch
Yesterday was the first day of the SQL Server 2008 R2 airlift.I attended a great session on Implementing a Fast...
2010-03-23
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SSRS - Formatting Mutiple Columns
Often when designing reports you are required to apply the same formatting to multiple columns in one table or matrix....
2010-03-19
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Minimizing Fragmentation when Moving data using a Switch
Yesterday was the first day of the SQL Server 2008 R2 airlift.I attended a great session on Implementing a Fast...
2010-03-17
814 reads
Using a CTE with a T-SQL Pivot Statement
During a T-SQL class that I was recently teaching I was asked if a PIVOT could be performed using a...
2010-03-09
9,603 reads
SSRS – KPIs without Analysis Services
During a recent project I was asked if it was possible to simulate Key Performance Indicator (KPI) images in SQL...
2010-03-09
1,684 reads
Speaking at Charlotte, NC - SQL Saturday #33
If you are near Charlotte, NC, I will be speaking at their SQL Saturday on March 6th, 2010. My session, SQL Server...
2010-03-01
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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...
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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