2018-04-10
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Editorials
Stumbling over Words
Phil Factor argues that the ability to write simply and expressively is a much under-valued skill in IT, and explains the main traps to avoid.
2018-04-09
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What's Downtime?
Steve asks the question today of how you might measure downtime and the scope you are concerned about.
2018-04-09
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One Size Does Not Fit All
Today we have a guest editorial from Derik Hammer that reminds us that there isn't one solution that will fit all your solutions.
2018-04-06 (first published: 2014-07-16)
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2018-04-05
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Is the DBA Title Dying?
Titles are very important to many people. Steve wonders if the main title many of us use will go away.
2018-04-04
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2018-04-03
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2018-04-02
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Paying It Forward
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Galbraith that looks at the ways in which he has helped others in his career.
2018-04-02 (first published: 2014-07-09)
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SQL Server Authenticated Users, why are we still using them?
AD Authentication in SQL Server has been around for a long time, so why do we still use SQL Authentication?
2018-03-30
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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
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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String Similarity II
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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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