Trace Flags in Azure SQL Database
One of the ways that you take more direct control over your SQL Server instances is through the use of...
2015-10-13 (first published: 2015-10-05)
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Grant Fritchey
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Argenis Without Borders: Fun For a Good Cause
This is the second year of Argenis Without Borders and the second year that I’m taking part. Last year we...
2015-10-12
516 reads
Speaker of the Month: October 2015
Working on my third year of “Speaker of the Month” posts now. The good news, I haven’t run out of...
2015-10-02
474 reads
Yes, Foreign Keys Help Performance
I created this example several years ago that illustrates how foreign key constraints can help performance. It’s a contrived example....
2015-09-21 (first published: 2015-09-09)
2,683 reads
PASS Nominations Committee 2015
The Nominations Committee has done their job and the final report has been published.
Good luck to everyone running. Thank you...
2015-09-14
472 reads
Speaker of the Month: September 2015
Feast or famine.
The last several months I just haven’t seen that many speakers, let alone that many community speakers. Then,...
2015-09-04
455 reads
Targeted Plan Cache Removal
A lot of times you’ll hear how people are experiencing sudden, intermittent, poor performance on a query, bad parameter sniffing...
2015-09-02 (first published: 2015-08-24)
1,584 reads
Time to Change
I recently spent two days consulting with a company on their database development and deployment processes. They are a small, capable, team...
2015-08-19
756 reads
Generating Estimated Plan and the Plan Cache
Does generating an Estimated Plan cause that plan to be loaded into the plan cache?
No.
What? Still here? You want more?...
2015-08-18 (first published: 2015-08-10)
1,781 reads
PASS Board Update: July 2015
I was actually travelling for most of July and some of that was on holiday with the family, the real...
2015-08-13
587 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
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...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
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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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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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