SQLSaturday, Rocky, and a CheeseSteak - Upcoming Event
As you know, the SQLSaturday sensation has exploded all over the nation. So many events scheduled this year, there is...
2011-01-31
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Robert Pearl
Microsoft SQL Server Licensing For Dummies..
Microsoft SQL Server Licensing For Dummies..
Don’t let the above title fool you! Have you been confused on the Microsoft...
2011-01-24
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What the heck is going on? Industry news, shake-ups,depatures, old controversies and new beginnings
What the heck is going on? Industry news, shake-ups and departures.
It's only two weeks into the New Year 2011, but there's...
2011-01-12
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Get Prepared for the January Hiring Season
Get Prepared for the January Hiring Season
As the year winds down, in what was undoubtedly a tough economic year for...
2010-12-21
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Just in time for Christmas – SQL Server 2005 SP4
Just in time for Christmas, Microsoft releases SQL Server 2005 SP4.
Many were wondering if they would meet their intended...
2010-12-18
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Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 - a comprehensive checklist.
There are many considerations and much preparation to do, when a company decides that it is ready to upgrade their...
2010-12-13
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Signal Waits and Resource Waits...a clarification
Signal Waits vs. Resource Waits
During my presentation at SQLSaturday#59, I spoke about the categories of wait types, such as...
2010-12-06
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Signal Waits and Resource Waits...a clarification
Signal Waits vs. Resource Waits
During my presentation at SQLSaturday#59, I spoke about the categories of wait types, such as...
2010-12-03
20,760 reads
Notes from SQLSaturday#59 - Waits & Queues Presentation
SQLSaturday#59 – Waits & Queues Presentation
At SQLSaturday#59 in NYC, my session was about Waits & Queues. I presented a topic I thought was...
2010-11-24
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SQLCentric is a winner of the 2010 SQL Server Magazine's Community Choice Awards!
As I was doing a little research this evening for a client, I hit the SQLMag site for the latest updates. ...
2010-11-22
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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
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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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