Windows 7 Beta Delayed
Looks like the Windows 7 beta download has been delayed while Microsoft adds additional infrastructure support. A little disappointing but I...
2009-01-09
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Blog Posts
Windows Server 2008 R2 Core supports SQL Server
First saw this because Jason Massietwittered about it. But apparently there are enough bits of the .NET Framework in R2...
2009-01-09
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AlphaSmart Neo
I ran across the AlphaSmart Neo in The Writer magazine. It's a $219 "laptop" that is for writing only, basically...
2009-01-08
669 reads
Batting 1000
Nobody bats 1.000, or one thousand. Not in baseball and not in any aspect of life. You might be able...
2009-01-08
625 reads
CS Techcast 57/Phone Interviews Are Hard
I've been meaning to do this for a year, finally caught up with Eric Johnson of Consortio Services to do...
2009-01-08
716 reads
Windows 7 Beta Release Friday
Tomorrow Microsoft will make Windows 7 beta available for download. I’m a little skeptical but I think just about anyone...
2009-01-08
672 reads
Analysis Services 2005 Deployment Wizard - Built by Design (Bug)
We use the Analysis Services Deployment Wizard when moving our cubes from Dev to QA and then QA to Prod. ...
2009-01-07
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Measuring My Goals
Yesterday I wrote about some goals for 2009 here at SQLServerCentral. It’s a list of stuff that I want to...
2009-01-07
945 reads
Networking - Part 2
Yesterday I started discussing networking and the idea that it's time invested with no guarantee of a return on that...
2009-01-07
744 reads
Organizing RSS Feeds
I have a lot of blogs I subscribe to. Well over 500 at last count. And the truth of the...
2009-01-07
724 reads
Blogs
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
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...
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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