PASS Pre/Post Con Selections
One of my favorite people in the SQL community, Andy Leonard, posted a blog criticizing the selection process for the pre...
2010-05-31
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Kathi Kellenberger
- Interests: Walking, running, grandchildren!
IndyTechFest
What would get over 400 techies to give up a beautiful Saturday and spend the day inside learning about SQL...
2010-05-23
1,015 reads
News
If you follow me on Twitter or are my friend on Facebook, you might already know the news. I am joining...
2010-04-29
2,000 reads
MVP Summit Review
I was lucky enough to attend the MVP Summit held last week in Redmond and Bellevue. I attended the Summit...
2010-02-23
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T-SQL Speed Phreakery Explained
If you haven't seen the Simple-Talk newsletter (it's free, so sign up!) you may not have seen my article on...
2010-02-08
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PASS 2009 DVDs
I was really excited when my PASS DVDs arrived last week. I had purchased the DVDs (or maybe CDs) back...
2010-02-05
949 reads
What three events brought you here?
I'm not sure if I have been tagged by anyone, but this is such an interesting topic I thought I...
2010-01-19
446 reads
Holiday gift for your favorite SQL Server Professional
If you have been putting off ordering your copy of "SQL Server MVP Deep Dives", now is your chance to...
2009-12-23
474 reads
Teaching and Learning
You learn a lot when teaching someone else, whether that be writing articles or books or actually teaching a class....
2009-12-23
660 reads
Introduction to Common Table Expressions
Learn how to use common table expressions to simplify your code. Replace temp tables and correlated subqueries with this cool T-SQL feature.
2009-12-08
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Blogs
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
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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