Speaker at SQL Saturday# 912 – New York 2019
I’m very happy to announce that for the first time, I will be participating as speaker at the SQL Saturday# 912 in New York City! This event will be...
2019-10-02
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Blog Posts
Troubleshooting NUMA Node Inbalance Problems
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2019-10-02 (first published: 2019-09-23)
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"Think Like a Certification Exam" at the PASS Career Dev marathon
Join me for my new webinar "Think Like a Certification Exam" at #PASSmarathon taking place on October 10!One of my favorite non-technical presentations to give explains how and why...
2019-10-01
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How to connect spark to ms sql server without '[Error] [JvmBridge] java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver'?
“[Error] [JvmBridge] java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver” - unable to connect spark to Microsoft SQL Server.
In spark when you want to connect to a database you use Read() passing in...
2019-10-01
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How to connect spark to ms sql server without '[Error] [JvmBridge] java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver'?
“[Error] [JvmBridge] java.sql.SQLException: No suitable driver” - unable to connect spark to Microsoft SQL Server.
In spark when you want to connect to a database you use Read() passing in...
2019-10-01
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More "Wrong" SQL Server Math - Floating Point Errors
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Last week we looked at how implicit conversions and datatype precedence can cause SQL Server to output unexpected results (if you aren't aware of how it...
2019-10-01
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More "Wrong" SQL Server Math - Floating Point Errors
Watch this week's video on YouTube
Last week we looked at how implicit conversions and datatype precedence can cause SQL Server to output unexpected results (if you aren't aware of how it...
2019-10-01
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More “Wrong” SQL Server Math – Floating Point Errors
Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. Last week we looked at how implicit conversions and datatype precedence can cause SQL Server to output unexpected results (if you aren’t aware of how...
2019-10-01
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Simple Graph Queries
In this post we saw how to create some graph tables with data. In this I will explore simple queries off of this data and how they compare with...
2019-10-01 (first published: 2019-09-21)
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Using the SSIS Term Extraction for Data Exploration
Data exploration is an essential piece of any new ETL (extraction-transformation-load) process. Knowing the structure, type, and even the semantics of data sources can help the ETL developer or...
2019-10-01 (first published: 2019-09-23)
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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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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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