My Conversation with Ted Kummert at the PASS 2010 Summit
For some mysterious reason, I was selected as one of the “official” bloggers/tweeters during the PASS Keynotes last week. This...
2010-11-15
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Glenn Berry
New Path to MCM in SQL Server 2008
Last week, during the first day of the PASS 2010 Summit, Microsoft’s Joe Sack announced the revamped testing program for...
2010-11-15
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SQL Server 2005 Diagnostic Information Queries (November 2010)
Here is the November 2010 version of my diagnostic information queries for SQL Server 2005. Many of these queries are...
2010-11-15
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XBox 360 250GB and Kinect Bundle
I took the plunge and bought one of the new 250GB XBox 360 and Kinect bundles for $399 at Best...
2010-11-14
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Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP Performance
I will be presenting my session on hardware selection and sizing today at 10:15AM in Room 608 at the PASS...
2010-11-11
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Full-Text Search Enhancements in SQL Server Denali
Since Microsoft announced the existence of CTP1 of SQL Server Denali during Ted Kummert’s keynote address at PASS 2010 yesterday,...
2010-11-10
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Why is SQLSaturday Such a Big Secret?
One of the small mysteries of the universe that I have been pondering lately is the fact that so many...
2010-11-10
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Day 1 at SQLPASS Keynote Address
Microsoft announced the RTM of SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse, which will be available as an appliance in...
2010-11-09
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November 2010 Version of SQL Server 2008 Diagnostic Information Queries
Apparently, when I posted this a few days ago, the Windows Live Writer plug-in that I used mangled the T-SQL...
2010-11-09
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Official Blogger at 2010 PASS Summit
I will be one of the “official” bloggers during the 2010 PASS Summit, which means that I get to sit...
2010-11-09
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Blogs
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...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
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Dynamic Unpivot
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Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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