How are you recharging this year?
Steve Jones asks about your plans to get away from work and refresh yourself.
2018-06-29
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Editorial
String or binary data would be truncated
This is an error that has plagued SQL Server for a long time. It should be fixed.
2018-06-28
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2018-06-25
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2018-06-21
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Providing Feedback to Speakers
One of the greatest things that has arisen in the past 10 years or so is a veritable stream of great conferences for people to learn how to write better software, many of them low cost or even free. In the Data Platform community, we have had nearly 800 free SQL Saturday events around the […]
2018-06-18
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More Query Tuning?
What types of sessions are important in a conference schedule? Steve Jones talks a bit about the lack of tuning sessions.
2018-06-15
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Building Test Data
Steve talks about the importance of test data and how to get it in development environments.
2018-06-14
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2018-06-13
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Machine Learning in the Database
Steve talks about Machine Learning Services in SQL Server and whether using this is a good idea.
2018-06-12
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2018-06-11
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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
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why End-User Testing Is Even...
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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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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