Database Free Space Monitoring – The right way
Lately I spent some time evaluating some monitoring tools for SQL Server and one thing that struck me very negatively...
2014-09-05
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SpaghettiDBA
Announcing ExtendedTSQLCollector
I haven’t been blogging much lately, actually I haven’t been blogging at all in the last 4 months. The reason...
2014-07-22
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Hangout #18 with Boris Hristov
Yesterday evening I had the honour and pleasure of recording one of his famous SQL Hangout with my friend Boris Hristov (b|t).
We...
2014-04-18
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Uniquifiers: all rows or the duplicate keys only?
Some days ago I was talking with my friend Davide Mauri about the uniquifier that SQL Server adds to clustered...
2014-03-14
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Verdasys Digital Guardian and SQL Server
I’m writing this post as a reminder for myself and possibly to help out the poor souls that may suffer...
2014-02-03
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Non-unique indexes that COULD be unique
In my last post I showed a query to identify non-unique indexes that should be unique.
You maybe have some other...
2014-01-30
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Blogs
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Building Power BI Reports: Desktop vs Fabric
By James Serra
Why this comparison feels confusing If you’re a Power BI report author who’s just...
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Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
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Designing SQL Server Pipelines That Are Ready for AI Before You Actually Need AI
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String Similarity I
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers