Pragmatic Works Foundation Class
This week I've been extremely busy working on the new Pragmatic Works Foundation class, which is the brainchild of Brian...
2009-04-15
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Blog Posts
Richmond, VA Code Camp to be Held April 25
The Richmond Code Camp 2009.1, will be held on Saturday 25, 2009 at the J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in...
2009-04-15
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Starting Conversations - Part 2
A week or so ago I posted a note about reading How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends (worth...
2009-04-15
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Tax Day
A reminder of one of the downsides of working is today: Tax Day. In the US, income tax filing is...
2009-04-15
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Do You Take Notes?
I happen to notice this in a class recently that I had the rare student - one that could take notes...
2009-04-14
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Taking Advantage
I read SQLBatman's post about his first week as an MVP, and it really resonated well with me. I think...
2009-04-14
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Networking = Business Cards
I've been writing a lot about networking lately and my efforts to learn/leverage LinkedIn, and along the way taken a...
2009-04-13
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PASS Connector Editorial for April 8, 2009
I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
2009-04-13
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PASS Update #9
Time has flown by since my last update, busy time at work and struggling to get that done and find...
2009-04-13
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SQL Server 2005/8 Database Compression Presentation in Burlington, Vermont - April 15th
Yesterday, I drove the Smart down to Burlington/Colchester, Vermont to meet up with MVP Roman Rehak and speak to the local...
2009-04-13
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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...
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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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