A Q&A with Troy Hunt: What will you learn?
We really enjoyed the insightful, intelligent answers Troy gave to Steve Jones’s questions and invite you to enjoy the fascinating conversation in the webinar which is now available on-demand.
Power BI CONCATENATE Function: How and When to Use it
In this article we cover various ways join and concatenate data in Power BI by using the DAX CONCATENATE function.
Stairway to SQL Server Extended Events Level 2: Creating Basic Event Sessions in the UI
In this Level, we'll walk through the basics of using the New Session dialog in the UI to create a new event session, define its events, actions and predicates, and establish a target for the session in which to collect the event data.
Tracking SQL Server Configuration Across All Your Servers Using SQL Monitor
The Estate Configuration reports SQL Server configuration across all your servers, so you can quickly investigate ad-hoc or unauthorized changes to any settings that might affect their performance, stability, or security.
Using Power Apps Patch Function with SQL Server
In this article we look at how to create a basic Power App that allows saving data to a database table.
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns
An "old" subject is revisted where "newbies" can learn the methods and veteran users can get more performance out of the code.
A Comparison of Database Drivers for MySQL
MySQL is "The world's most popular open source database" and it is widely-used to store and access your data. In fact, there are many cloud and on-premise databases (like MemSQL and Google Cloud SQL) that use the MySQL interface. Several native, open-source drivers are available for connecting to your MySQL data from other applications. In […]
The Complexity of Modern Systems
Building software is hard, and our systems are very complex these days.
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...
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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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