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SQL Server STUFF

The STUFF function in SQL Server is one of those little gems that is very under-used but when needed can be a real handy utility – at least that’s...

2022-01-10

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2021 a year in review

No matter where you are in the world the last couple of years have been, shall we say, difficult. More ... Continue reading

2022-01-07 (first published: )

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Distributed SQL

A very brief history of databases for online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads starts with relational databases (RDBMS), which worked well for many years. With the advent of the internet and...

2022-01-07 (first published: )

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AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands

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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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