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Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art

I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece of ASCII Art. I have a screenshot here: For some reason, I thought, “I should...

2026-01-20 (first published: )

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Catching Up On SQLOrlando

Somehow two years have elapsed since my last update; hopefully it won’t be that long before the next one. My last post was about SQLSaturday Orlando 2023. Since then,...

2026-01-16 (first published: )

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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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