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PASS Summit 2019 Photowalk

This was my first year joining the Summit Photowalk organized by Jamie Wick (blog | twitter). I had a lot of fun - Seattle is full of great photo...

2019-11-29

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Your First Jupyter Notebook

In April, I said I was going to start learning Jupyter Notebooks. It’s November. Let’s get going with your first Jupyter Notebook. A quick aside before we start. I...

2019-11-28 (first published: )

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PASS Summit 2019 Wrap-Up

I’m home from PASS Summit 2019, recovered from the travel, and in the post-Summit “I miss #SQLFamily” funk. Time to recap the week, maybe a bit differently than it’s...

2019-11-27

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SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)

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Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...

Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric

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Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)

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Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE

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Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central

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Question of the Day

String Similarity I

On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL')

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