Connector Editorial for July 1, 2009
I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
2009-06-30
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Blog Posts
Querying the Procedural Cache on Canada Day (July 1st)
The goal of this post is to understand the procedure cache and execution plans to ensure we use fewer resources...
2009-06-30
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SSIS - Creating a Deployment Manifest
Using a Deployment Manifest in SSIS allows you to deploy a set of packages to a target location using a...
2009-06-30
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Tracking My Goals – Half the Year
I made a series of resolutions in January related to SQLServerCentral. These are things that I wanted to accomplish this...
2009-06-30
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Unwired for Days
Today is the first day that I've really had any significant time on the computer over vacation. That probably sounds...
2009-06-30
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Best Thing I Learned at PASS
At the 2003 PASS Summit in Seattle the organization had a "SIG Challenge" that involved developing a database solution to...
2009-06-29
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Featured Blog: Jeremiah Peschka
I met Jeremiah at the PASS Summit last year and since then I’ve looked in on his blog from time...
2009-06-29
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SQL Saturday #17 - Abstract Submitted
I was asked to attend SQLSaturday #17 in Baton Rouge, LA. Despite my lack of desire to travel, I've never...
2009-06-29
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LinkedIn Groups
I’ve written a few posts now about LinkedIn, and for now still find it be the best fit for me...
2009-06-28
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SQLPSX Release 1.6
I completed Release 1.6 of SQLPSX which adds support for SQL Authentication and addresses several issues. SQLPSX consists of 106 functions,...
2009-06-28
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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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