Announcing Minion CheckDB release date!
Minion CheckDB is the third piece of our free backup and maintenance tools, rounding out the list with Minion Backup...
2016-11-28
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Jen McCown
Fight harassment: be the “Backup” at PASS Summit
Harassment is a problem at some of the conferences we go to. What can we, as attendees and speakers and...
2016-10-11
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Step by Step: WHERE, GROUP BY, and HAVING
People new to SQL often have trouble with the difference between WHERE, GROUP BY, and HAVING…three separate clauses in the...
2016-10-07
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PASS Summit 2016: Recommendations and Invitations (#sqlpass #sqlsummit)
The last week of October, we’ll be at the PASS Summit in Seattle, WA. As some of you already know – and as I...
2016-09-06
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October precon in Orlando: “The Lifecycle Approach: Maintenance Problems & Solutions”
On October 7 we will be presenting a full day of maintenance and backup learnin’! Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sql-saturday-564-the-lifecycle-approach-maintenance-problems-solutions-tickets-26867268724 And while you’re at...
2016-09-05
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Conference speakers: Why do you teach at events?
I’ve put up a Twitter poll to find some answers to the question: Why do speakers teach at events? Especially at...
2016-08-29
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An MCM teaches COMMENTS at SQL Saturday OKC
Edit: SQL Sat OKC has come and gone, but the new session on comments is recorded and up on the MidnightDBA Events...
2016-08-26
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Slash star, dash dash: Be obsessive about comments
I’m working on a new session* that I’ve named “T-SQL’s Hidden Support Feature”. It’s about comments. I’ll get to the...
2016-08-12 (first published: 2016-08-08)
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Tricky TSQL: NOT IN (NULL)
We’ve done this before, but we can go one better this time. Let’s take this step by step. NULL means...
2016-08-11
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Feasel’s Grand Analysis of the PASS 600 mile radius rule
UPDATE: Last week, PASS announced an update to the 600 mile radius announcement: “…we will be piloting the 600-mile driving radius...
2016-08-10 (first published: 2016-08-01)
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Blogs
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...
Flyway Tips: Multiple Projects
By Steve Jones
One of the nice things about Flyway Desktop is that it helps you manage...
Forums
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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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