[Video] Fragmentation Explained in 20 Minutes at SQLBits
What does fragmentation mean? How does it happen? Can you fix it with fill factor? Should you rebuild your indexes to fix it?
2022-09-26
Administration
2022-09-16
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Understanding the System Function FILEPROPERTY()
Learn how to use the system function, FILEPROPERTY(), to get information about your database in T-SQL.
2022-09-09
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The Case for Patching
Recently I was testing a feature in SQL Server on 2017 and 2019. There was supposed to be an improvement across versions, but I didn't see it. Then I realized that I was on SQL Server 2019 CU 2 on my laptop, and the current CU is 17. I took a few minutes to download […]
2022-08-20
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Getting More Information From the String or Binary Data Truncated Error
Get more information from the string or binary data truncated message to help troubleshoot data problems on SQL Server 2016, 2017, and 2019.
2022-08-17
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2022-08-03
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Linked Servers: a Peek Behind the Curtain
Learn how a linked server caused an issue with Gallium Data.
2022-07-15
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2022-07-13
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2022-07-01
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A New SQL Server Vulnerability
A new vulnerability for SQL Server is covered by a number of patches this week.
2022-06-18
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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...
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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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