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SQL Saturday visits Salt Lake City on September 7 for a free day of SQL Server training and networking. SQL Saturday has partnered with with the Utah Hadoop User Group and Utah Geeks Events to create the Big Mountain Data Conference.
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When developing your code, should you use views? There are reasons why you might choose to do so, or not do so, however Steve Jones thinks you should consider abstracting your systems.
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In the new VECTOR_DISTANCE() function in SQL Server 2025, the first parameter is the distance_metric. What is this?
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