Monday Morning Mistakes: Connecting to Wrong Environments
Today’s Monday Morning Mistake issue is another painfully common one that we all run into at some point. You’ve got...
2012-06-18
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sqlchicken
BIxPress 3.5–Now With More Awesome!
Pragmatic Works has now released version 3.5 of the award-winning BIxPress software! For those not familiar with BIxPress it’s a...
2012-05-21
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SQL Server 2012: Biggest Little Core-house
You sure do got a 'purty motherboard...
Now that SQL Server 2012 is generally available to the public, many companies are...
2012-04-30
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Pragmatic Works Software for MVPs
This is just a quick post to remind folks who are current Microsoft MVPs that Pragmatic Works offers NFR licenses...
2012-04-23
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STOP! Consolidate and Listen
I just wrapped up my 24 Hours of PASS session on consolidation. A big THANK YOU again to everyone in attendance,...
2012-03-21
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Monday Morning Mistakes: Not Setting Memory Limits
Welcome back to another addition of Monday Morning Mistakes series. Today’s issue is one I tend to run into quite...
2012-03-12 (first published: 2012-02-28)
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Monday Morning Mistakes: SSIS Expressions Not Evaluating Correctly
SSIS Expressions
Expressions in SSIS are great. They allow you to create dynamic values for all sorts of stuff like variables,...
2012-02-16 (first published: 2012-02-13)
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Monday Morning Mistakes: Remote Connectivity to SQL Server
Inspired by common emails and questions I see, I figured I’d do a series of blog posts on common mistakes...
2012-01-23
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Estimated Completion Time for Backups and Restores
I’m in the middle of a database migration and thought I’d quickly share a script I threw together to show...
2012-01-03 (first published: 2011-12-30)
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SQL University: Virtualization Basics
This week we’re going to talk about a topic that has been gaining steam in the last few years and...
2011-11-17
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Blogs
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL
PlanTrace Now Supports PostgreSQL The same plan analysis you know from...
A New Word: the Kinder Surprise
By Steve Jones
the kinder surprise – . the point in your early adolescence when you realize...
Crash-Consistent Snapshot Cloning - Hyper-V Edition
If you’ve been following my T-SQL Snapshot Backup series, most of what I’ve covered...
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The Distance Metric
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Question of the Day
The Distance Metric
In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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