Significant Achievements
As a few of you know, I took the Microsoft Certified Master (MCM): SQL Server 2008 lab at this year’s...
2012-11-28
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StrateSQL
Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysreferences
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-28
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Querying Performance Counters in SQL Server
In a previous post, there was a comparison between sysperfinfo and sys.dm_os_performance_counters which included the use of a simple query. ...
2012-12-06 (first published: 2012-11-27)
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Help Bring #SQLFamily to Fargo, North Dakota
Did you know that a SQL Saturday in Fargo is in the works? If not them, hey… there’s a SQL...
2012-11-30 (first published: 2012-11-26)
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Cyber Monday: Performance Indexing Book is $15
Ever thought you could learn a little bit more about indexing? Now here’s the perfect opportunity. Today only you can...
2012-11-26
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Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #8
Throughout the week, I like to tweet links to the things that I’ve been reading. Since they all come out through out...
2012-11-26
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Reblog: November 16 to November 22
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2012-11-23
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysperfinfo
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-22
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysobjects
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-22
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Lost in Translation – Deprecated System Tables – sysusers
This post is part of a blog series which focuses on translating compatibility views in SQL Server to their respective...
2012-11-21
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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
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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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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