Damian is Microsoft MVP and Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience. Now trying to share the passion and knowledge among others. He runs the blog with his daughter as she is really passionate about technology

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Weekly reading #21

Hello, hello! We have just started new week! We missed the weekly reading last time due to travelling across the Europe over the weekend. There is however a lot...

2019-07-15

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Weekly reading #20

Being MVP for the #11 straight year is something unique! Thank you! The first week of July has just started. So oficially we have started vacations and the team...

2019-07-01

15 reads

Coffee

Weekly reading #19

Good afternoon folks! It is Monday Tuesday already after a long weekend in Poland. I do not know what temperature you have but here we are like in a...

2019-06-25

17 reads

Breakfast by the sea image

Weekly reading #18

Ready for vacations? The CodingFamily team is almost ready – we have some vacations plans including great conferences during summer and in the autumn. T-SQL bugs, pitfalls, and best...

2019-06-17

20 reads

Round Table of Coffee

Weekly reading #0x10

This is the blog anniversary! 16th Weekly reading has come into the light! For great articles and a video wait for you! Report Parameter Support for Paginated Report E-Mail...

2019-06-03

19 reads

Cup and Saucer

Weekly reading #15

SQLDay 2019 is gone. The Data Community.PL has now a new goal – it is the SQL Saturday #914 in Torun. The speakers will be announced after July 30th....

2019-05-27

22 reads

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Question of the Day

String Similarity I

On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL')

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