It’s Been a While …
Last Post – SQL Saturday MN 2018 When last I wrote, it was after I spoke at SQL Saturday in Minnesota. I co-presented a pre-con with Josh Owen. Prior...
2019-04-30
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Blog Posts
Know How to Repair SQL Database Marked as Suspect Mode in SQL Server
Repair SQL Database Marked as Suspect Mode MS SQL server is a widely used relational database management system developed by Microsoft. It is a software product which primarily helps...
2019-04-30
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Know How to Repair SQL Database Marked as Suspect Mode in SQL Server
Repair SQL Database Marked as Suspect Mode MS SQL server is a widely used relational database management system developed by Microsoft. It is a software product which primarily helps...
2019-04-30
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Lengthen a Primary Key–#SQLNewBlogger
Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I saw a post recently where someone needed...
2019-04-30 (first published: 2019-04-17)
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Setup SQL Server Alert to get automatically notified of database blockings
Suppose you want to or need to know anytime your SQL Server is experiencing blocking where queries are being blocked and it may or may not escalate to a...
2019-04-30 (first published: 2019-04-17)
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Four Data Integration Design Questions to Ask
We get requests to move data between custom systems regularly, even within systems. I was advising a client on something fairly simple—a collection of tables out of one vendor...
2019-04-29
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It’s all just data.
Tables, stored procedures, views, logins, constraints, etc, etc. It’s all just data. In every database system I’ve ever worked on ... Continue reading
2019-04-29 (first published: 2019-04-17)
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More Software Quality with DevOps and CD
Tomorrow is the SQL in the City Summit in London. Right now I’m in a Heathrow airport hotel, finalizing some prep for the event. I have to run a...
2019-04-29
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Speaking at PowerShell Summit 2019
Speaking at PowerShell Summit 2019! I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019 the conference runs from April 29th 2018 through...
2019-04-29
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Speaking at PowerShell Summit 2019
Speaking at PowerShell Summit 2019!
I’m proud to announce that I will be speaking at PowerShell + DevOps Global Summit 2019 the conference runs from April 29th 2018 through...
2019-04-29
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Blogs
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
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Dynamic Unpivot
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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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