Endi Zhupani is a university graduate from Tirana with a degree in Information Systems. He currently works for Pragmatic Software, a company in Tirana that develops transaction and operation management systems as web applications. Throughout his entire development experience, Q&A and blog posts from other developers have saved my day more times that he can count, so he thought he’d start giving back by writing about my work and solutions he has come up with for some interesting problems.

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In-memory tables in 60 seconds

As a SQL Server DBA or developer here is what you should know about memory-optimized tables (in-memory tables):

Introduced in SQL Server 2014
Primary store is main memory, second copy maintained on...

2016-10-13

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Temporal Tables in 60 seconds

If you've ever designed a database you've most certainly run into the need for what we called history tables, those tables that stored the history of row changes (sometimes...

2016-10-11

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Synchronizing NOT NULL Columns

Applies to: xSQL Schema Compare v7.0.0 – v 9.0.0, xSQL Data
Compare v7.0.0 – v9.0.0

Description: Using
xSQL Schema Compare and xSQL Data Compare to keep the tables of two databases
in sync...

2016-10-06

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Blogs

The Book of Redgate: Mistakes

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This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...

ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel

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A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...

Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff

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Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...

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Dynamic Unpivot

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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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