T-SQL Tuesday #132 - Coping With the Pandemic
This week is a double-whammy of activity - T-SQL Tuesday and PASS Summit 2020. T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community blogger each month,...
2020-11-11
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FLX SQL
Restoring Database Users After Copying the Database
A former colleague emailed me with a question about retaining/fixing database users and permissions after restoring a database. They were copying a database from one instance to another, with...
2020-11-04
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Restoring Database Users After Copying the Database
A former colleague emailed me with a question about retaining/fixing database users and permissions after restoring a database. They were copying a database from one instance to another, with...
2020-11-04
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Shell to Script Shortcut
I’ve been meaning to write something this post for a while but the stars have aligned this week. Garry Bargsley (blog | twitter) published a post about making a...
2020-10-21
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Write It Down!
Recently I set up a new process to pull data out of a MySQL database and into SQL Server. Pretty standard ETL stuff, but it’s the organization’s first time...
2020-10-16
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New Presentation - The SQLFamily
A couple months ago I delivered a short (15 minute) presentation at work about the importance of having a good professional network and how I’d found mine. As I...
2020-10-06
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Recapping SQL Saturday Albany 2020 (virtual)
This weekend was SQL Saturday Albany 2020. This was my third time attending the Albany event, my second time presenting, and my first virtual SQL Saturday. As always, Ed...
2020-07-26
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Finding & Downloading Required SQL Server Updates
A little while back, I offered up a one-liner to scan your SQL Server instances and report which ones are out of date. But what if you need to...
2020-07-21
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Finding & Downloading Required SQL Server Updates
A little while back, I offered up a one-liner to scan your SQL Server instances and report which ones are out of date. But what if you need to...
2020-07-21
19 reads
Virtual SQLRun for PASS Summit 2020
Just because we aren’t all together in Houston doesn’t mean we can’t have a #SQLRun at this year’s Summit. It might even be easier for some folks as there’s...
2020-07-02
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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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