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Lesson 2: Internal Structures, Vardecimal, & Row Compression

Welcome to Lesson 3 on Compression and welcome back Dear Reader. I want...

2011-10-17

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Day 6: Friday PASS Summit 2011 Keynote Live

Hello Dear Reader! Welcome to the final day of the PASS Summit and the Keynote address by Dr. David J...

2011-10-14

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I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...

I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...

Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...

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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')

Assume preview features are enabled.