My SQL PASS Summit Adventures part 1
I started my PASS Summit a little early this year. I arrived in Seattle on Friday night, November 5th, around...
2010-11-16
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Blog Posts
My Weekend Just Got Busy
I’m traveling to New York City on Friday for SQL Saturday #59 and returning Sunday morning. As soon as I...
2010-11-16
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PASS Summit Report 2: Seattle Again?
There is always a lot of talk about the fact that we have been in Seattle several years in a...
2010-11-16
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PASS Update #47–Election Review Committee
As always, this represents my own views, I’m speaking only for me and not the entire PASS Board.
Early last week...
2010-11-16
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PASSMN Meeting Today
Check us out today by either traveling down to Bloomington or jumping in and joining us online. Today Minnesota’s SQL...
2010-11-16
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SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 1
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 Cumulative Update 1, which is Build 4266. I count 67 fixes...
2010-11-16
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SQL Server Team-Based Development
The new book is available in a free download from Red Gate. I had a lot of fun working on...
2010-11-16
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The SQL Server MCM Training Has Changed
One thing that stuck out for me at the PASS Summit was the changes announced for the SQL Server Microsoft...
2010-11-16
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The World’s Largest
Each year, the Georgia Bulldogs and the Florida Gators meet on the college grid iron in what’s called the world’s...
2010-11-16
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There should only be one ...
When visiting clients, I often find that one or more databases have a table (or several) containing metadata. Most often, these tables have only a single row of data...
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
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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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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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