BI at the Royal Canadian Mint - TechEd
The Royal Canadian Mint, in Ottawa, is located at a large castle. How cool is that? Would you want to...
2010-06-08
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Blog Posts
Building an Energy Efficient Workstation
Over this past weekend, I decided to build a new general purpose workstation from parts, with a goal of getting...
2010-06-08
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Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 18
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-06-08
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Data Compression
We have come to that time of month again – blog party. This time, the party is hosted by Jorge Segarra...
2010-06-08
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Impressions of My First Day at TechEd 2010
TechEd 2010 started today, June 7, and will run through Thursday, June 10, 2010. In the past TechEd has run...
2010-06-08
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More Details About Engine Improvements in SQL Server 2008 R2 (SQLTuesday)
This post is for SQLTuesday #007, hosted by Jorge Segarra (blog | twitter). The topic is to talk about your favorite...
2010-06-08
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Overcoming Your Limits
As I age in years, I realize more and more how blessed I was to attend The Citadel, the Military...
2010-06-08
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PASS Summit 2010 Abstract Submissions
I submitted three abstracts for the 2010 PASS Summit this year - two "normal" (75 minute) and one spotlight (90 minute)...
2010-06-08
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SQL Saturday #22 Pensacola Recap
Saturday I drove up to Pensacola for SQL Saturday #22. Me and several others from Baton Rouge, including my two...
2010-06-08
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SSIS-DTS Package Search 2.0.18 released
SSIS-DTS Package Search 2.0.18 has been released. This is a bug fix release that addresses a problem with the search...
2010-06-08
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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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