SQLSaturday#59 NYC 2010 - 3 Days Away! - Sponsor Profile
SQLSaturday#59 is only a mere 3-days away! Today, I am bringing you a sponsor profile for our participating vendors, who...
2010-11-17
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Blog Posts
Template for Tracking Professional Development
One of the ideas I mentioned in my presentation on Comprehensive Professional Development was to set up some type of...
2010-11-17
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The 2010 SQLServerCentral Party
A quick look at the SQLServerCentral party at the 2010 PASS Summit, thanks to SQLChicken. It’s on UStream
Not great quality,...
2010-11-17
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Un-SQL Friday 001: Branding
In the spirit of T-SQL Tuesday, I hereby declare this Friday Un-SQL Friday. While T-SQL Tuesday is “…the SQL Server...
2010-11-17
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Another Plagiarizer
I received a note today about someone else that is plagiarizing content from SQLServerCentral. It’s a blog on Windows Live...
2010-11-16
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Backup log Truncate_Only in SQL Server 2008
BACKUP LOG <db_name> WITH truncate_only command, used for clearing the log file, is deprecated in SQL Server 2008. So this post will explain option...
2010-11-16
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Can't Hit the Remote Registry through the Virtual Name
This is a problem we just solved, which was causing us to not be able to hit the remote registry...
2010-11-16
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Dynamically Backing Up All User Databases in SQL Server
I recently had a request from a client to come up with a routine to do a full compressed database...
2010-11-16
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Handy Hardware Assessment Tools For SQL Server
Here is a small selection of useful tools for getting some specific hardware information from any Windows based system you...
2010-11-16
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How Often Do You Backup Your Transaction Logs?
Whenever I speak about database maintenance, I always recommend that DBAs backup up their production database transaction logs at least...
2010-11-16
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
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...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why End-User Testing Is Even...
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Writing as an Art and...
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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