Why I Love SQLBits
Last week I attended SQLBits 2016 in Liverpool. I had such a great time, and I would like to share...
2016-05-08
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Guy Glantser
Why I Love SQLBits
Last week I attended SQLBits 2016 in Liverpool. I had such a great time, and I would like to share...
2016-05-08
1,230 reads
Partition to Filegroup Mapping in SQL Server
Suppose you have a partition function and a corresponding partition scheme in SQL Server. The partition scheme maps each partition...
2016-05-05 (first published: 2016-04-25)
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How to Use Parameters Like a Pro and Boost Performance
Yesterday I presented my favorite session “How to Use Parameters Like a Pro and Boost Performance” in the DBA Fundamentals...
2016-03-01
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From XML to JSON – script
Last Thursday I presented my session “From XML to JSON” in the Application Development PASS Virtual Chapter. The session is...
2016-02-28
700 reads
Introduction to Big Data
So you’ve been working as a DBA or a BI developer for several years now. You know your stuff very...
2016-02-21
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Hadoop Fundamentals – The Presentation
Few days ago (28/12) I delivered a full-day seminar about Hadoop Fundamentals. It was part of the Expert Days 2015...
2015-12-30
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How to Compare Tables in SQL Server
One of our customers has recently asked me the following question (I changed just the business case):
The Problem
“I have a...
2015-12-22
544 reads
Hadoop Fundamentals
Have you heard about Hadoop, but never really understood what it’s all about?
Do you need to learn about Hadoop, either...
2015-12-14 (first published: 2015-12-10)
3,413 reads
The Power of Data in the Cloud
Today we had a full-day event in Microsoft about the data offerings and possibilities in the Microsoft cloud platform – Azure....
2015-11-19
704 reads
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
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why End-User Testing Is Even...
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Writing as an Art and...
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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