PASS Summit Logo Design Contest
It appears our success with the SQLRally Logo Design Contest has struck a chord with PASS HQ. This morning Rick...
2010-09-10
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday#59 NYC Kickoff....
Well, as many of you in this space may already know that SQLSaturday#59 in @MS HQ in NYC, on November...
2010-09-10
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2010-09-10
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Connection String Settings: Timeouts and Pooling
If you are having SQL Server Database connection issues, I reckon they could be due to one of two connection...
2010-09-09
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Free Webinar: Turn Your Backups Into Live Databases with SQL Virtual Restore
Steve Jones, SQL Server MVP and editor of SQLServerCentral.com, will be hosting a free webinar with Jeff Aven, the head...
2010-09-09
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More On Overlapping Statistics
In my last post I provided a script to identify overlapping statistics but realized afterwards that I left out a...
2010-09-09
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PASS SQLRally – Session/Speaker Selection
Hopefully by now you’ve heard about the PASS SQLRally event that will be held in Orlando, May 11-13. Andy Warren,...
2010-09-09
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Retiree Association Firmly Onboard with My Repetitive Criticism of Quebec’s Deposit and Investment Fund: Mille fois Bravo l’AQRP ! :)
Just a bit of follow up here, to start closing the loop, regarding my multiple written outbursts regarding the institutionalised...
2010-09-09
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SQL Server - Dedicated Administrator Connection (DAC)
This a short post looking at the Dedicated Administrator Connection or DAC for short. In extreme circumstances, when there is...
2010-09-09
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SQLRally Meeting Minutes
The starting point for a good meeting is an agenda and minutes. It took us a bit to catch up,...
2010-09-09
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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
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
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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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