Happy Independence Day America and 10 Years Packt Publishing!
If you are in the USA, I hope you take some time today to enjoy your family and friends and...
2014-07-04
656 reads
DataOnWheels
T-SQL Window Functions – Part 2: Ranking Functions
This is a reprint with some revisions of a series I originally published on LessThanDot. You can find the links...
2014-06-26
1,245 reads
T-SQL Window Functions – Part 1: The OVER() Clause
This is a reprint with some revisions of a series I originally published on LessThanDot. You can find the links...
2014-06-26
2,735 reads
Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #16: Exposing “Values” from a Tabular Model
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2014-06-19
1,170 reads
Exploring Excel 2013 for BI Tip #15: Locking Slicer Position
As I mentioned in my original post, Exploring Excel 2013 as Microsoft’s BI Client, I will be posting tips regularly...
2014-06-23 (first published: 2014-06-18)
4,292 reads
A Month, Almost Two Months Offline–Was the Silence Deafening?
The past couple of months has been very busy at home and at work so I have fallen behind a...
2014-06-18
698 reads
Techfuse, a New Laptop, and How Microsoft Azure Helped Save the Day
On Tuesday, April 22, I had the opportunity to speak at the Techfuse conference in Minneapolis. I was presenting a...
2014-04-24
681 reads
Oracle Tips for MSBI Devs #6: Supporting SSAS Tabular Development
As SQL Server Analysis Services Tabular Models become more popular, models will use Oracle databases as sources. One of the...
2014-04-14
1,113 reads
Ten Years and Counting …
On March 8, 2014, I reached ten years of service at Magenic Technologies. When I started in 1999 (don’t do...
2014-03-14
810 reads
Setting Up Tabular Models on Windows Azure
In my last post, I discussed how to set up Oracle in Windows Azure. During a customer call, there were...
2014-03-12
2,742 reads
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When SQL Server Central Went Down
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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