The Land of BBQ
I’m off to Kansas City today for SQL Saturday #53 and looking forward to a great speaker’s dinner tonight at...
2010-10-01
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Blog Posts
Why Read?
I love to read. Like my friend, Paul Randal (blog, @PaulRandal), I read a lot of books every year, usually...
2010-10-01
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Be Thorough When Making Schema Changes
This morning we made some changes to the database. We realized that as part of a re-factor we needed to...
2010-09-30
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Cleaning up excess contiguous spaces in strings. A mystery.
/* Have you ever come across the problem where you have to remove spaces from a string that has too many?...
2010-09-30
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Dear Users…Sincerely, Your IT Guys
Dear Users,
We, the tech people, understand that you just want technology to work so you can get your jobs done. ...
2010-09-30
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Geekbench 2.1.7 Released
If you read my blog or follow me on Twitter, you know that I have a strong interest in database...
2010-09-30
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No Guarantees
The keynote for SQL Saturday #52 in Denver, that didn’t go as smoothly as I’d like due to technical difficulties,...
2010-09-30
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PASS Summit Schedule
Earlier this week, PASS opened up the Schedule Builder for the those that are registered for the PASS Summit. You...
2010-09-30
1,555 reads
Revisiting The West Wing
Sometimes spending some time with your spouse watching TV is right up there with comfort food, the challenge is often...
2010-09-30
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SQL Saturday 52 Recap
I spent this past weekend traveling to and attending SQL Saturday Colorado in the outskirts of Denver. This was the...
2010-09-30
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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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