Investing In Yourself
I've always been in favor of investing in things that I think will benefit me long term, but all investments...
2009-01-05
1,577 reads
Blog Posts
Kindle Review – Back To Paper
I’ve had my Kindle now for about 3 1/2 months and I have to say that I really like it....
2009-01-05
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Orlando DotNetNuke User Group Meeting on Jan 6, 2009
My friend Will Strohl leads this group and asked for help getting the word out. I'm planning to attend.
URL:http://orlando.dotnetnukeug.net/WhatsNew/Events/tabid/91/ctl/Details/Mid/428/ItemID/16/Default.aspx?selecteddate=1/6/2009
Speaker: Stan...
2009-01-05
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SSIS – CHECKSUM Transformation
CHECKSUM is a TSQL function that computes a hash value over a list of arguments. The great thing about creating...
2009-01-05
20,732 reads
The Story of The Aquarium Stand
Last year we acquired a small aquarium for my daughter, and then upgraded to a whopping 10 gallon tank. Turned...
2009-01-05
4,019 reads
DBA Mission and Vision Statement
There is a saying that "The important is often not
urgent and the urgent not important". I could not agree more...
2009-01-03
18,327 reads
SQL 2008 Row and Page compression – or SQL 2005 (post SP2) vardecimal conversion
One of the great new features in SQL 2008 is Row and/or Page Compression. Plus, still good news for those...
2009-01-02
1,766 reads
How Certification Can Help You Stay Current with Technology, as well as Continuing Your Education
If you'd like to keep up with your profession as a SQL DBA, I thoroughly recommend certification. It has certainly...
2009-01-01
1,988 reads
Meeting Goals
I'm not a big goals person. I think it's a good idea to set goals, and they can help you,...
2009-01-01
446 reads
MVP 2009
I was re-awarded MVP status from Microsoft for 2009. Since I didn’t hear anything to the contrary in the last...
2009-01-01
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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
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why End-User Testing Is Even...
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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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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