Podcast with SQL Data Partners on Patching Best Practices
Recently, I joined Carlos L Chacon (site|@CarlosLChacon), Steve Stedman (blog|@SqlEmt), and the rest of the SQL Data Partners Podcast team...
2017-10-23
448 reads
Robert Davis
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Webcast: Troubleshooting SQL Server Connection Issues
I will be doing a live webcast on Thursday, November 9th 2017 at 3 PM Eastern Time (8 PM UTC...
2017-10-23
444 reads
Checklist: DR Plan Sanity Check
If a disaster struck tomorrow, are you ready for it? Are you sure you thought of everything? I cannot count...
2017-09-04
498 reads
31 Days of Disaster Recovery Revisited
A few years ago, I did a blog post series dedicated to disaster recovery (backups, restores, corruption, etc). 31 blog...
2017-08-18
471 reads
Patching SQL Server and SSMS? Order matters.
If you’ve been living under a rock, you may not have noticed how frequently SSMS is getting updated. The SQL...
2017-08-14
474 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #93: 3 Jobs I Didn’t Take and 1 I did
It’s T-SQL Tuesday again, and this month’s host is Kendra Little (blog|@), and the excellent topic selected by Kendra is...
2017-08-08
582 reads
Real-life SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting at SQLSaturday Columbus
Join me Friday, July 21, 2017 for a day of Real-life SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting as part of SQLSaturday Columbus...
2017-06-26
709 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #90: The Death of the DBA in a DevOps World Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
It’s time for another iteration of the blog party known as T-SQL Tuesday. This month’s theme is Shipping Database Changes...
2017-05-09
779 reads
Why Log Shipping is Better than Database Mirroring for Migrations
This topic has come up several times recently, so I feel the need to blog on it. As the person...
2017-05-05
1,128 reads
24 Hours of PASS: Security: Session Files
Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation for the 24 Hours of PASS event on May 3rd. This iteration of...
2017-05-04
721 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
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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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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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