Alessandro Alpi

Alessandro works in the IT since 2000. He started the DBA career since 2005. It's CTO and co-founder of Engage IT Services S.r.l. in which he's the Team Leader. He manages the development team with a continuous improvement pattern using agile practices. He designed the SQL Server automated deployment in his company using the RedGate tools and Visual Studio Team Services. Thanks to this, he's now Friend Of RedGate. Alessandro is also a teacher for SQL Server and ALM topics and a Translation Community Contributor on the official MS documentation. He's staff member of GetLatestVersion.it. He is also the organizer of some italian online and offline events, like PASS SQL Saturdays and DevOpsHeroes. He's the local organizer of SQL Saturday Parma. He's Certified Disciplined Agile Practitioner.

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Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler

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The String Distance I

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The String Distance I

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
Assume preview features are enabled.

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