PASS 2012 Countdown – 1 Week To Go
Oh, dear! One more week until this year’s PASS Summit. If you haven’t registered yet, you’re really cutting it close. ...
2012-10-30
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StrateSQL
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #4
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out...
2012-10-29
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Decoding first, root, and FirstIAM in Sysindexes
Have you ever looked at the first, root, and FirstIAM columns in sysindexes and wondered…
“What do these values mean?”
Recently, I...
2012-10-26 (first published: 2012-10-23)
1,673 reads
Reblog: October 19 to October 25
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-10-26
570 reads
PASS 2012 Countdown – 2 Weeks To Go
I’m not sure how we got to 2-weeks until this year’s PASS Summit. If you haven’t registered yet it’s really...
2012-10-25
792 reads
Discovering Binary Pages In Sys.Indexes
In a previous post, we looked at how to take the the binary page values in sysindexes and convert the...
2012-10-24
1,166 reads
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #3
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out...
2012-10-22
704 reads
What Happened to rowmodctr from Sysindexes?
In my blog series Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables, I’ve been going through the compatibility views in SQL Server...
2012-10-22
2,586 reads
Ask The Unicorn: SQL Saturday Registration Is Closed
Right before the last Minnesota SQL Saturday, I was asked a few questions about learning about SQL Server which led...
2012-10-20
768 reads
Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysforeignkeys
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-10-19 (first published: 2012-10-16)
1,760 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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