Speaker of the Month: June 2015
With my travel schedule, I don’t always get out to events where I can see a community speaker. Sometimes, I...
2015-07-03
576 reads
Grant Fritchey
- Twitter: @https://twitter.com/gfritchey
- Website: https://scarydba.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-fritchey/
- Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gfritchey.bsky.social
Leadership Training Possibility
I know a few people in the SQL Server community who have been involved in Scouting. A couple of them...
2015-06-30
993 reads
Speaker of the Month: May 2015
When I attend sessions at events, I try to mix it up. I’ll go to a session that, really, I...
2015-06-09
526 reads
Come to Us or We’ll Come to You
No, that’s not a threat. It’s an offer to help out.
Redgate Software is very serious about the efforts we’re putting...
2015-06-01 (first published: 2015-05-18)
1,414 reads
Parallelism and Columnstore Indexes
Columnstore indexes are fascinating and really cool. Unfortunately, they’re adding an interesting new wrinkle to an old problem.
What’s the Cost...
2015-06-01
814 reads
Book Review: Connected
I heard about Connected from a show on NPR (Yes, I listen to NPR, why do people keep saying that?)....
2015-05-29 (first published: 2015-05-19)
5,090 reads
PASS Board Update: May 2015
I’ve had a busy month on the Board.
You may have seen some tweets going by about our compliance with international...
2015-05-27
542 reads
Database Engine Tuning Advisor
I would love to see the Database Engine Tuning Advisor (DTA) pulled from the product. Completely. Heck, I feel bad that...
2015-05-26
821 reads
Is Performance Better With LEFT JOIN or RIGHT JOIN?
I tend to write my queries using LEFT JOIN. Why? Because logically I see it in my head like this:
Give...
2015-05-20 (first published: 2015-05-11)
7,060 reads
I Am Grateful For…
I’m almost done reading the book Connected (will be by the time this is published). It’s fascinating although, at least so...
2015-05-15
505 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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why End-User Testing Is Even...
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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