PASS 2009 Evaluation Results
The results are in, and I'm pleased, but not satisfied. I delivered a brand new session called Gather SQL Server...
2010-01-13
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Blog Posts
PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Presentation
I got the opportunity to present to the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter today, discussing the properties and practical uses of...
2010-01-13
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Primary Key Discovery II
In Part I, I discussed a couple of scripts that could be used to help discover some vital information about...
2010-01-13
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SQL Pass session evaluations
I finally got the last of my PASS Summit session evals and so, like someotherpeople, I thought I’d make them...
2010-01-13
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SQL Server Standard Volume 7 Issue 1
Kathi Kellenberger’s fantastic new article is available in the latest issue of SQL Server Standard. There are a lot more...
2010-01-13
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Tally Table - String Cleaning
Overview
This is something that most people eventually need for reporting purposes. This function uses a Tally table to 'clean' a...
2010-01-13
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The Advantage of GUIDs
I never liked GUIDs, not really using them in most of my development until I had a conversation many years...
2010-01-13
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Why not play my cards?
Still no work on my laptop. It’s been over 24 hours since I left a message for the customer escalation...
2010-01-13
719 reads
Why not play my cards?
Still no work on my laptop. It’s been over 24 hours since I left a message for the customer escalation...
2010-01-13
718 reads
Finding Invalid SQL Logins
As many of you know the system stored procedure sp_validatelogins is used for finding invalid logins. Although sp_validatelogins is useful there's...
2010-01-12
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
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...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
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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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