I am Speaking at 2013 PASS Member Summit!
Speaking at PASS Summit 2013
Every single year I look forward to the PASS Member Summit. In a nutshell it is...
2013-05-30
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John Sterrett
T-SQLTuesday #42: The New Adventure!
It’s time for T-SQL Tuesday the forty-second, Wendy Pastrick asked that we talk
T-SQL Tuesday!
about our experiences with change in our work lives. I’d...
2013-05-14
572 reads
Benchmark SQL Server Disk Latency
Typically, I am a big advocate of performance monitor but one place I commonly see performance monitor being misused is with benchmarking...
2013-03-06 (first published: 2013-02-25)
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SQL Server Performance Tuning with Free Tools!
The following is a recording of my Performance Tuning for Pirates session recorded by UserGroup.TV at SQL Saturday 125 in...
2013-01-14
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12 Steps to Workload Tuning – Winter 2012 Performance Palooza!
[UPDATE] Video recording from PASS Virtual Performance Chapter’s Winter 2012 Performance Palooza can be found here.
I am a huge fan...
2012-12-05
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#sqlpass #summit12 day two keynote review
The following is my highlights and thoughts about the day two keynote at the SQL PASS Member Summit.
Douglas McDowell started...
2012-11-08
689 reads
5 recommendations for attending #sqlpass #summit12
The following are five recommendations I would like to share with anyone attending the #sqlpass member summit. I hope you...
2012-11-07
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Is #SQLPASS helping their speakers?
I love the SQL Community because it usually is a great environment to connect, share and learn. With that said,...
2012-10-30
1,618 reads
Dallas, TX to Pittsburgh, PA A #sqlsat171 Story!
First SQL Saturday in Pittsburgh
It was an honor to speak at the first SQL Saturday in Pittsburgh. The company I
We...
2012-10-12
626 reads
Presenting at OKC SQL Server User Group Tonight!
Tonight, October 8th at 6:30pm I am virtually speaking at the OKC SQL Server User Group. I had a blast...
2012-10-08
544 reads
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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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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