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ExpressProfiler - new release

Just released new build of ExpressProfiler.
No major changes, just cosmetic improvements - shortcut here, confirmation dialog there, new captured events (SQL:StmtStarting/Completed,...

2014-08-11 (first published: )

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Don't mess with success or Everybody lies.

Imagine that you have a table of customers
createtable Customer
(
Name varchar(30),
LastName varchar(30),
Title varchar(30)
);
go
insertinto Customer values('Alex','Smith','Mr.');
insertinto Customer values('John','Doe','Dr.');
goNow you selecting list...

2014-06-10 (first published: )

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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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