Watch this week’s episode on YouTube. In order to stay current in a technology you have to immerse yourself in community content. Documentation is good for knowing the specification...
2019-08-07 (first published: 2019-07-16)
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When you think of system databases, tables, etc there are a number of things you might think of. Necessary to ... Continue reading
2019-08-07 (first published: 2019-07-17)
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Microsoft and Oracle recently announced a joint cloud partnership (I have seen the word multi/cross-cloud to explain this) which I found very fascinating to read. It is currently in...
2019-08-07
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Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
In the...
2019-08-06
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Watch this week's video on YouTube
Part 1: Introduction to Execution Plans
Part 2: Overview of Statistics
Part 3: Reading an Execution Plan
Part 4: Commonly Troublesome Operators
Part 5: Troubleshooting Execution Plans
In the...
2019-08-06
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This is my fourth installment in a series responding to Steve Jones’s (blog | twitter) #SQLCareer challenge. I jotted down most of what I did through the day, filling...
2019-08-06
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[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] The “modern data platform” architecture is becoming more and more popular as organisations shift towards identifying, collecting and centralising their data...
2019-08-06 (first published: 2019-07-16)
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You can read about columnstore indexes here (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/transforming-your-data-in-azure-sql-database-to-columnstore-format/). I won’t rehash the material but high level, these index types are optimized for analytical queries and high compression of data...
2019-08-06
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The other day I did a post on how an OR short circuts. It was a somewhat unusual type of ... Continue reading
2019-08-06 (first published: 2019-07-15)
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I found this question on stack overflow that went something like this:
“I have a file that includes line endings in the wrong place and I need to parse the...
2019-08-06
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By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
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What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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