How to Fail a Phone Screen
It’s funny to me how easy it is to fail a phone screen – both as the interviewer, and as the...
2013-11-29 (first published: 2013-11-18)
4,157 reads
SQL Awesomesauce
Compare tables to find missing rows
Let’s talk about the case where you want to compare tables to see what’s missing. We might be comparing a...
2013-11-14
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Quick note: Redgate SQL Data Compare using the command line
I’ve been working on an automated data compare process for one client. I’ve been struggling a little with odd hangups...
2013-10-22
1,144 reads
Liveblogging PASS Sumit Day 1 Keynote with Quentin Clark (#SQLPASS #Summit13)
Welcome to the live blog! Have some resources to start: Watch the keynote live here: http://www.passsummit.com #sqlserver Take a look at...
2013-10-16
518 reads
Next Week, in or out of Charlotte (#sqlpass #Summit13 #SQLHighTea #TooManyHashtags)
Welcome to Tuesday. We hope you enjoy your stay! Edit: We have been informed that today is actually Wednesday. We...
2013-10-09
535 reads
MidnightSQL Server Evaluation script, version 1.0
Server evaluations are a major part of my consulting business. I need to get up to speed very quickly on...
2013-09-30
1,257 reads
Interviews with Great SQL People – Authors, MVPs, many more
I’m trying really hard to write a blog that goes over all the great #sqlpass interviews we’ve done, but work...
2013-09-27
1,266 reads
SQL Tip: Get Log Space with DBCC SQLPERF(LOGSPACE)
Every so often I’m reminded that the “basics” aren’t really basics. None of us go to take “How to be...
2013-09-19
696 reads
Hit Fast Forward: Converting and deploying DTS packages
This one is just a quick shout-out to Pragmatic Works, and to Sean. Pragmatic Works made DTS xChange, which I...
2013-09-19
521 reads
#TribalSQL: A new book by new voices in SQL Server
Two years ago, we were talking about how cool it would be to get a bunch of unpublished authors to...
2013-09-17
522 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
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...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
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Dynamic Unpivot
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Writing as an Art and a Job
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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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