Friday Followup For December 19, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-12-19
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Blog Posts
Getting Started with the Power BI Dashboards Public Preview
If you’re currently an Office 365 customer that is using Power BI sites then you probably found an early Christmas...
2014-12-19
1,239 reads
Getting Your Worth the Struggles with Moving Ahead
I often get asked for advice on how to get started in a career as a DBA or in IT...
2014-12-19 (first published: 2014-12-10)
6,994 reads
I am joining SQLskills
I am no longer just a SQLskills Insider, I am now a SQLskills employee. I have accepted an offer to...
2014-12-19
1,307 reads
Offer – Any e-book for $5
Packt Publishing are having a price drop bonanza over the Christmas period. You can get any e-book for just $5...
2014-12-19
479 reads
Quick Audio Switching
I’ve got a semi complicated desktop setup, with multiple monitors, lots of USB stuff, and a few ways to record...
2014-12-19
890 reads
Reblog: December 12 to December 18
Photo credit – Travis
Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...
2014-12-19
889 reads
SQL #55 – Data Types and Storage Reference
When we design a database, we usually need to do an estimate on the size of the database based on the...
2014-12-19
1,088 reads
Whats New 2014
Hey all, Continue to my whats New series, I am going through its new features and the more I am...
2014-12-19
573 reads
XQuery - Accessing the Attributes Axis
Working with a sequence of attributes in XQuery is fairly straight forward with the 'attribute' axis even if you don't...
2014-12-19
841 reads
Blogs
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
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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