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Feeling your age? How would you know?

As this idea is being born, I am sitting in a dueling piano bar and I have never felt so old ever. And I don’t mean physically. I have only recognized about 1/4 of the songs being played, and everyone just seems younger than me. Even the people I think are older seem younger as […]

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2025-04-05

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Fantasy baseball and old habits

Old habits are hard to change sometimes. Time and again, regardless of what the task or query for information might be, my go-to source of information is Google. Whether on my phone or computer, my muscle memory instinctively opens a browser window or clicks into the search widget and starts typing. My “google foo” has […]

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2025-03-30 (first published: )

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Vector Datatype Dimensions

The new vector datatype in SQL Server 2025 requires a number dimension parameter. What is the maximum number of dimensions supported?

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