Long Live All Passwords
Steve talks about passwords and new guidance from Microsoft that short expiration periods are unnecessary and unhelpful.
Stairway to T-SQL DML Level 5: The Mathematics of SQL: Part 2
Joining tables is a crucial concept to understanding data relationships in a relational database. When you are working with your SQL Server data, you will often need to join tables to produce the results your application requires. Having a good understanding of set theory, and the mathematical operators available and how they are used to join tables will make it easier for you to retrieve the data you need from SQL Server.
4 steps to standardize your database development processes
Adopting standardized processes in database development can free up the time of development teams for innovation and value adding work. Find out the 4 steps you can take to lay the foundations for standardized development in your team and pave the way for full automation.
SQL Server Triggers Pros and Cons
In this tip we look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of using triggers in SQL Server.
Ordering T-SQL Scripts with Git and PowerShell
Learn how you can ensure that scripts are executed in a specific order with Git and PowerShell for use in a Docker container.
How to Reseed Your Identity Column Value in SQL Server
Have you deleted a bunch of rows from a table that has an identity column value and now thins aren't working quite right? If so, read on...
Insert Statement Without Column List (BP004)
Many production databases have failed embarrassingly as a result of INSERT code that omits a column list, usually in mysterious ways and often without generating errors. Phil Factor demonstrates the problem, and advocates a 'defense-in-depth' approach to writing SQL, in order to avoid it.
Debugging SQL Server
This week we have a more technical poll as Steve Jones wonders how you best debug your T-SQL code.
Understanding Machine Learning
This article describes about the understanding Machine Learning and bits of Artificial Intelligence as it’s a superset of Machine Learning.
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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