PASS Update #30 (Surveys)
Recently we released the results of the annual survey to determine interests for the 2010 Summit. That’s a step in...
2010-04-30
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Blog Posts
Plagiarism
It seems to rear it’s ugly head more and more these days. Once again I found some content from my...
2010-04-30
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SCRUM Training with Alistair Cockburn
I wanted the SCRUM Master certification this year, and could have gone local, but I wanted to get the training...
2010-04-30
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Six Months
“Show up for work on time for six months and then we’ll talk. Until then, I have four words for...
2010-04-30
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Two Ways to Get System and Server Information on SQL Server from Management Studio / Enterprise Manager
To collect information for your SQL Server Infrastructure, there are two ways I can recommend.
The first, as mentioned from...
2010-04-30
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Windows 7 v the iPad
No, I didn’t buy an iPad, but I have to say on a trip to the Apple Store this week...
2010-04-30
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A DMV a Day – Day 29
The DMV for Day 29 is sys.dm_exec_connections, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about the connections established to this...
2010-04-29
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A Identity Bug
Someone asked an interesting question recently. If they had this code:
if OBJECT_ID('aa') is not null
drop table aa
create table...
2010-04-29
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News
If you follow me on Twitter or are my friend on Facebook, you might already know the news. I am joining...
2010-04-29
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PASS Update #29
By the time you read this we’ll have completed the transfer of the SQLSaturday web sites and data to PASS...
2010-04-29
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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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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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