My Experience on Geeks on Screen with Coffee
Last week on appeared on Geeks on Screen with Coffee which broadcast on YouTube and is a different sort of broadcast to be on in good way. Mark Pryce-Maher...
2020-11-24
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Blog Posts
My Experience on Geeks on Screen with Coffee
Last week on appeared on Geeks on Screen with Coffee which broadcast on YouTube and is a different sort of broadcast to be on in good way. Mark Pryce-Maher...
2020-11-24
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SQLpassion Black Friday Deal 2020
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan - you get a weekly email packed with all the essential knowledge you need to know about performance...
2020-11-24 (first published: 2020-11-16)
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What the future of PASS needs – and how I can help
At the recent PASS Virtual Summit I and the other candidates took part in a Ask Me Anything (AMA) session – where the community posed us questions. It was...
2020-11-24 (first published: 2020-11-16)
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A quick and dirty scan of a list of instances using a dynamic linked server.
Note: This is not exactly a dyanmic linked server. It just gets dropped and recreated in a loop. I recently ... Continue reading
2020-11-23 (first published: 2020-11-12)
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Daily Coping 23 Nov 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-11-23
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Markdown Links– Remembering the Basics
For some reason, I can never remember how to do markdown links. I know to use the hash symbol (#) for headings. I know that asterisks do bold, or...
2020-11-23
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Serious Thoughts About PASS
Back when Covid started I guessed that this might be yet another live-or-die challenge for PASS. PASS is heavily dependent on Summit revenue and uses it to fund all...
2020-11-23 (first published: 2020-11-12)
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sp_RestoreScript 1.8 Now Released
It looks like there was a bug lurking in sp_RestoreScript that was causing the wrong ALTER DATABASE command to be generated when using @SingleUser and a WITH MOVE parameter....
2020-11-23
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Azure SQL Database and Memory
There are many factors to consider when you are thinking about the move to Azure SQL Database (PaaS) – this could be single databases (provisioned compute or serverless) to...
2020-11-22
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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
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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