LinkedIn - Part 2
Recently I posted LinkedIn (part 1) about my efforts to better understand and use it as a networking platform. It...
2009-04-01
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Blog Posts
Moving to MySQL
It’s time. After years of building this site to work with SQL Server, I sold it to Red Gate Software....
2009-04-01
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Undocumented Trace Flag Improves Performance By Up To 25%
As a production DBA I love to tweak things to optimal perfection. After all, if I paid for the hardware...
2009-04-01
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Buying A Plane
There's been a lot of bad press about 'corporate jets' in the news over the past year. Not that planes...
2009-03-31
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Keeping Relevant in the Face of Changing Technologies
I was recently asked by a co-worker on my team at work what he should do to keep up with...
2009-03-31
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Lunch in Town
One of the guys I met at the Denver User Group pinged me last week for lunch, and I agreed....
2009-03-31
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Microsoft Project Migration Template for the move to SQL 2008
If you are planning a move to SQL Server 2008, although this process can apply for many Database Migrations, perhaps...
2009-03-31
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Orlando .NET Code Camp 2009 Recap
On Saturday, 3/28, I presented Useful T-SQL Statements You May Not Be Aware Of at the 2009 Orlando .NET Code...
2009-03-31
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SQLSaturday #15 in Jacksonville
The call for speakers is still open and will close April 6th, there's still from for a few more sessions....
2009-03-31
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The Prius Update
Our second major repair will take place on the Prius, and once again it’s a cosmetic item. In fact, we’ve...
2009-03-31
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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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Dynamic Unpivot
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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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