Consolidation Matters
Consolidating SQL Server instances is something Steve Jones has done in the past and he thinks we'll all do more of in the future.
2014-04-21
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Editorial
Advice for Newcomers
If you could look back on your career, is there some advice you wish you had? Is there something you'd tell people considering your job as a career? Let us know this Friday.
2017-12-12 (first published: 2014-04-18)
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One Database to Rule Them All
Twitter is working on a new database that can handle unstructured as well as structured data well. Is this a competitor for SQL Server?
2014-04-17
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2014-04-16
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Doing What It Takes To Get The Job Done
It can be a point of pride in technology that we work ourselves to get the job done. Is that a good thing? Andy Warren has a few thoughts.
2014-04-15
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2014-04-14
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How Long Before You Upgrade?
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know about the lifetime of your instances. Do you have some idea on how long you'll run a particular version of a platform?
2017-11-10 (first published: 2014-04-11)
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If or When?
Are data breaches a question of if they will happen to you or when will they happen to you?
2014-04-10
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Problems with Big Data
Today Steve Jones notes that Big Data isn't a panacea. It's not going to just solve all problems.
2014-04-09
224 reads
Lobbying for Change
The Connect system from Microsoft doesn't work that well, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't continue to press Microsoft for change.
2014-04-08
130 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
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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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