Reblog: January 5 to January 11
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-01-11
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Blog Posts
Rename the SQL Server Management Studio shortcut
Jorge Segarra (blog | twitter) was giving a presentation and he remarked on how the SQL Server Management Studio shortcuts have...
2013-01-11
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Scaling out SQLLunch UK
As you may be aware, I have been running a lunch time user group ‘SQLLunch UK’ having stolen drawn inspiration...
2013-01-11
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Six Degrees of SQL Saturday Fargo
Do you know anyone that lives in or around the great white north that is Fargo, North Dakota? If so,...
2013-01-11
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SQL Bits XI Registration is Now Open
Hi all,
registration to attend SQL Bits is now open.
http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1163518
There’s a 600 capacity limit and they anticipate it to fill rather quickly. More details can be found here:
http://sqlbits.com/
Hope to see...
2013-01-11
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SQL Server 2012 with SP1 Installation Step by Step Guide - Saving System Admins, DBAs, Developers and Support Technicians A Wee Bit O' Misery
Since the last guide was quite popular (over 4k distinct views for SQL Server 2008 R2), I've uploaded to SkyDrive...
2013-01-11
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Statistics Update Clarification
By default statistics are created automatically within SQL Server. And, by default, these stats are updated automatically based on a...
2013-01-11 (first published: 2013-01-07)
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Under which user your SQL Agent Job run : SQL Agent Service Account or SQL Agent Job Owner ?
Today, I am willing to do demo that under which user my SQL Agent Job run, SQL Agent Service Account...
2013-01-11
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Auto grow–On or Off Straw Poll
David Postlethwaite who contributes to this blog regularly sent me an email this morning asking about Database Auto grow.
This...
2013-01-10 (first published: 2013-01-07)
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MDS Error SYSERR207 after SQL Server 2012 SP1 Upgrade
After upgrading to SQL Server 2012 SP1, I ran into a bug in Master Data Services (MDS) that applies only...
2013-01-10
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Blogs
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...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
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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