New HP Envy 15 Laptop
After quite a bit of research, I pulled the trigger on a new HP Envy 15 system last Saturday. This...
2009-11-12
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Blog Posts
PASS Summit 2009 – Keynotes
I’m not going to look back at the keynotes since I blogged about them. If you are interested, you can...
2009-11-12
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SSRS - Setting Default Parameter Values for Analysis Services Datasets
When developing Reporting Services reports that use Analysis Services as a data source you may find that it is difficult...
2009-11-12
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The SQLServerCentral Party
I think it went off well this year, and it looks like it will be around next year as well....
2009-11-12
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Will the New PASS Summit Attendees be Back?
Despite the down economy, the 2009 PASS Summit attendance was down only 8% compared to the 15% of other conferences...
2009-11-12
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Windows Virtual PC and Windows XP Mode on Windows 7
One feature of Windows 7 that you may not have heard of is Windows XP Mode on Windows Virtual PC....
2009-11-12
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Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group
If you are in the Baton Rouge Area stop by and join our user group meeting this evening. The details...
2009-11-11
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Better Than a Business Card?
A few weeks ago I was looking for a few branded items, happened to run across drink coasters at 4imprint....
2009-11-11
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IDENTITY Property in SQL Server
IDENTITY PropertySometimes we need a column whose values can uniquely identifying the rows in the table. To achieve this purpose,...
2009-11-11
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Looking Back – PASS Summit 2009 Day 3
I started Wednesday planning on going to the Quest sponsored breakfast (plus presentation about DMVs) but when I bailed when...
2009-11-11
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Blogs
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
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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