Now Serving: SQL Server 2008 SP2 CTP
For those of us who love to get our hands on the latest and greatest shiny new things, the wait...
2010-07-08
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Blog Posts
PASS Summit 2010 Program Committee Experience
I had the opportunity to serve on the Program Committee for the 2010 PASS Summit. My job was rating and...
2010-07-08
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Proposals to win a MSDN Subscription
Recently quite a few MVPs (here, here and here ) are handling out MSDN Ultimate subscriptions in the community. What interests...
2010-07-08
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SQL Bits 7 – The 7 wonders of SQL
I have been procrastinating this evening, I have several blog posts that I want to write but the football is...
2010-07-08
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SQL Lunch Presentation Today
I'm going to try and do a better job of announcing free training and learning opportunities. With that said, there's...
2010-07-08
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SQL Server 2008 SP2 CTP Available
Microsoft has made the Community Technology Preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2008 SP2 available for download. This is Build 3798,...
2010-07-08
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Way Behind
One of the things I have to do every month is process payments for the authors. It’s my job to...
2010-07-08
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Why Would They Coach Me?
During a recent call I was talking with someone about achieving a career goal (coaching in itself, though unplanned) and...
2010-07-08
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Free SSIS Training - SQL Lunch #24 (Looping in SSIS)
Join Brad Schacht this week on the SQL Lunch to learn about Looping in SSIS. Go to SQL Lunch and...
2010-07-07
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Getting Started with SQL Azure (doc)
Getting Started with SQL Azure - Very nice & short document about SQL Azure beginning process. This is the official document that...
2010-07-07
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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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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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