MCM Exam – Take 2
Yesterday, I went in for my re-take of the MCM written exam. If you recall, I failed the exam last...
2011-03-29
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Blog Posts
On Leadership - Lead from the Front
This topic actually came up at SQL Saturday #70 - Columbia, SC. I spent the first 15 years of my life...
2011-03-29
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Speaking at SQL Saturday #68 on Women in Technology
I am excited that I get to speak at SQL Saturday #68 on April 9. If you live close to...
2011-03-29
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MidnightDBA: We do a lot
We do a lot of things. It’s difficult to explain all the things we do to people. So I made...
2011-03-28
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On the Move to SQL Server Connections
Brian Kelley, speaking on the SQLServerCentral track.
A bit of a crazy day for me, starting off a crazy week. I...
2011-03-28
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Oracle Drops the Bomb
The below information has been taken from SSWUG.org.
Oracle Drops the Bomb
Since the purchase of Sun and it’s holdings by Oracle...
2011-03-28
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ShowPlan XML
I just ran into something that I hadn’t noticed in SQL Server. It struck me as somewhat interesting but is...
2011-03-28
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ShowPlan XML
I just ran into something that I hadn’t noticed in SQL Server. It struck me as somewhat interesting but is really not too big of a deal. While demonstrating...
2011-03-28
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SQL in the City – The Red Gate Tour
Red Gate Software is announcing SQL in the City today, a series of events that will bring a free day...
2011-03-28
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SQL Math: Whole Numbers, Real Numbers
It’s been a long time since grade school math, and for some the details have become kinda fuzzy. I’m no...
2011-03-28
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
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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