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DataTune Nashville 2024 Recap

DataTune 2024 was a huge success! Thank you so much to the organizers who spent countless months planning and making this an incredible conference! It was so great to...

2024-03-18 (first published: )

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Don't Trust the Defaults

(2024-Mar-08) Software installation typically involves several steps. After accepting the license agreement, you may have an express option to streamline the installation process by accepting all defaults, including the installation...

2024-03-13 (first published: )

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How Can Data Empower Leaders

Using data effectively, leaders can make better decisions, drive innovation, and inspire trust. What is leadership through data? Leadership that utilizes data is the ability to use data as...

2024-03-13 (first published: )

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SQLBits 2024 Recap

Had an absolutely amazing time at SQLBits this year! It was lovely to see all my data friends again and had the opportunity to introduce my husband to everyone...

2024-03-12

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Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI

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it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...

A New Word: on tenderhooks

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on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...

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I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...

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Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page

By JSB_89

I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...

how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable

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hi, in an ssis  for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...

Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)

By NKTgLaw

SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...

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Question of the Day

String Similarity I

On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL')

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