Rules to Live By: Do the Hard Things First
I can’t say I stick to this one 100 percent of the time, but it’s definitely a deeply held belief....
2010-04-23
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Blog Posts
Script of the week
Every week I will scour the internet for useful SQL scripts and post my favorite on here.
This weeks comes from...
2010-04-23
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Road Show Recap
This past week I had the opportunity to speak at three SQL Server R2 Launch events.I spoke in three cities...
2010-04-23
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A DMV a Day – Day 22
The DMV for Day 22 is sys.dm_exec_query_memory_grants, which is described by BOL as:
Returns information about the queries that have acquired...
2010-04-22
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An Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Change Data Capture
This is an excerpt from my free eBook, Brad’s Sure Guide to SQL Server 2008, which can be downloaded here.
As...
2010-04-22
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Consulting and the MBA
The year is 1991. Nirvana’s Smells like teen spirit is the must-have album of the year. And everyone who is...
2010-04-22
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e-Ink Improvements
I saw this article on the improvements from E-ink that are coming. There are two videos, one of a better...
2010-04-22
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I’m on TV at the Tweet-up
I was listening to the announcement of SQL Server 2008 R2 yesterday on a call from Microsoft. It was released...
2010-04-22
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Index Stats Duplication
I came across a recent posting about seeing multiple entries in sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats for the same index. This kind of behavior...
2010-04-22
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OPASS is pleased to announce - SQLSaturday #49 - Orlando October 16th. Get it on your calendar now.
SQLSaturday #49 - Orlando is now live on the SQLSaturday web site. It will be held on October 16th at Seminole...
2010-04-22
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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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