2017-04-20
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Editorial
SQL Server Telemetry
SQL Server captures information about usage and send it to Microsoft. Is that a problem? Not for Steve Jones.
2017-04-18
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Liable for Data Loss
Today Steve Jones looks at some data loss lawsuits against Microsoft, but asks the general question of whether software vendors need to be more liable (and careful).
2017-04-17
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More Power in Your BI
This week Steve looks at all the information and learning available for Power BI.
2017-04-17
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The Cost of Database Downtime
Do you know what the cost is for your database going down? Maybe more interesting, is do you want to know?
2017-04-14
146 reads
AI Helpers or Replacements
The future will see more of our data used in machine learning and other AI-like systems. Is that something we want?
2017-04-13
53 reads
The Value of Your Personal Data
Today Steve Jones discusses the idea of data value, and what it might mean to you, personally.
2017-04-12
54 reads
2022-12-05 (first published: 2017-04-11)
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By Design
Just because something works, is it prudent to implement a solution knowing there is a chance this design flaw will be stricken from future revs of SQL Server? It depends.
2017-04-10
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How do you define employee satisfaction?
This article explores aspects of a job that help one feel satisfied at work.
2017-04-10
98 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
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
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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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