Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy talks about the things that help us out when we forget to handle some aspect of server administration. These safety nets can be handy, but should they be there? Should we have more of them? Join the discussion.
Paul Randal adds another chapter to his thorough series on knee-jerk wait statistics, focusing on the often-misunderstood PAGELATCH_XX waits.
A quick tip to help you get system object suggestions from SQL Prompt.
Ghanesh Prasad discusses 12 best practices any developer or DBA should follow when working on a SSRS project.
A new series to take you through the basics of how to get started using Azure as your own personal lab.
The pressure to move to virtual systems is increasing, but is there a fallback if you have issues?
Even the most experienced programmers can be caught out unawares by software they've used for years without trouble. Dino Esposito explains why and how the JSON method in an ASP.NET MVC controller class suddenly started to cause an exception on a production server, and how he fixed the problem.
Join Justin Dearing and Elizabeth Ayer to hear about some of the key challenges of database version control, and why it's only a matter of time before it's as essential as good backups and high performance.
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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