Blackberry Bold
It was only a year ago that I moved from the Blackjack to the Blackberry Curve and overall I was...
2008-12-23
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Blog Posts
Check Out the Free Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool
Traditionally, analyzing Performance Monitor data has not been an easy task. It often involved viewing Performance Monitor logs in graph...
2008-12-23
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Do No Evil
One of Google's tenets is to "do no evil" as they run their corporation. This article questions their motives as...
2008-12-23
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Looking for a DBA Diversion?
If you haven't done so, check out this Simple-Talk Editorial by Tony Davis, in addition to all the comments the...
2008-12-23
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Hiring Your First Employee
Visit Business of Software
It’s my boss, or rather the owner of the company I work for (yes I work for...
2008-12-22
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Office Ribbon - Find The Command/Out of Office?
I guess I'm stuck in the past, but the Office Ribbon still hasn't grown on me. I think it makes...
2008-12-22
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Call It a Day, or a Day Minus 2 Milliseconds
There's one report that I look at every day to assess how things are going on a project we launched...
2008-12-21
603 reads
Sp_altermessage “Classic”, much better than “New” sp_altermessage
I was reading through the SQL Server 2005 SP3 release notes yesterday (sadly, it was enjoyable) and clicked through to...
2008-12-19
799 reads
Version Restores
I saw a question today on restoring a SQL Server 7 backup to SQL Server 2005, and I wasn't sure...
2008-12-19
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A Week of Books - Part 5
Last and not least this week, The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life. This is an authorized biography...
2008-12-18
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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...
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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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