Virtual Reality (VR) Meet My #sqlfamily
Virtual Reality? And SQL Server?
“… and never the twain shall meet” bit.ly/1yhgLHS
Or should they?
The time has come for data professionals...
2015-01-22
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Blog Posts
Advanced SSIS Training in Dallas
I’m very excited to offer a new course entitled “Advanced SSIS” in the Dallas area this spring. My friend and...
2015-01-21
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Constraint names, Say NO to the default
Have you ever seen a constraint with a name like PK__TableNam__EA185FBF8FF1529D? It’s kind of funny looking right? I mean it...
2015-01-21
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Space issues with SSIS temp files
The page came at a reasonable hour. All of the overnight ETL and processing jobs were just winding up before...
2015-01-21 (first published: 2015-01-15)
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Statistics Parsing
Never really enjoyed reading through the statistics IO results, as it makes it hard to easily guage total impact when...
2015-01-21
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The Data Loading Performance Presentation
This Monday, at SQLSaturday Israel, I presented my new session, “The Data Loading Performance Presentation”.
I worked on the session a...
2015-01-21
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Your tech lab just changed forever
The VMware Users Group VMUG just announced a partnership with VMware, called the EVALExperience, to offer VMware technology pre-production 365-day licenses...
2015-01-21
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A Reason To Smile! - Deep Dives II
Over this past weekend, SQL MVP Kalen Delaney sent an inspiring note to the MVP email thread, and I wanted to...
2015-01-20
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Collation Conflicts
I have recently seen some “bad plans” being generated by the optimiser and from investigation, the cause came down to...
2015-01-20
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Common Table Expressions Are Not Tables
There’s power in naming things. Supposedly some types of magic are even based on knowing the correct names for things....
2015-01-20 (first published: 2015-01-14)
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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
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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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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