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2014-05-02 (first published: 2014-04-22)
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Blog Posts
Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 5
More notes, many from a chat with Kendal.
We wish we could see the open rate on email and an...
2014-05-02
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Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 6 (Seminars)
Seminars (aka “pre-cons”) have been part of the DNA of SQLSaturday going back to #1. For those that weren’t there...
2014-05-02
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Collation: Confusion
I started reading about collations after I had a recent run in with them. As I read I started to...
2014-05-02 (first published: 2014-04-23)
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Data Quality Matching in SQL Server
Every IT person is more than introduced to the problems of integration – in the ideal perfect world we could join...
2014-05-02
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Friday Followup For May 2, 2014
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2014-05-02
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Hekaton 2014 – The Saviour vs The Lost Cause
With the release of the SQL Server 2014, Microsoft has finally unleashed their long-time in work In-Memory solution (codenamed XTP...
2014-05-02
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Reblog: April 25 to May 1
Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot
Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years,...
2014-05-02
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Sabbatical Decisions
My employer, Red Gate Software, offers a sabbatical to their employees, and this year I’m taking mine. I’ll be gone from...
2014-05-02
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Speaker of the Month, May 2014
Whoa! Another month gone by already? I guess I better pick a speaker of the month then. I went to...
2014-05-02
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Blogs
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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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('Steve', 'Stan')
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