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SQLPlayer is renaming

It was about time. The blog and all related services are being changed the name. From SQL Player to Azure Player. You probably noticed over several years that the...

2023-01-02 (first published: )

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A SQL Compare Picklist

Recently a customer was trying to sync up production and development. They’d somewhat lost control of both environments and wanted to build a plan of how to sync them....

2022-12-30 (first published: )

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When SQL Server Central Went Down

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The String Distance I

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Question of the Day

The String Distance I

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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