Rayis Imayev

My personal journey in an intricate world of data and continuous effort to make it more structured and well understood can be found in this blog.

I live and work in Canada - see my profile on LinkedIn.

Data Modeling at your fingertips

(2021-July-30) A picture is worth a thousand words, the same way a visual database schema is better than a database model communicated by a multitude of data scripting text objects.
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2021-08-16 (first published: )

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Azure Function Drain mode

(2021-Jun-16) Recently, Google started to notify me that my blog website (http://datanrg.blogspot.com/) had been experiencing some ‘Server (5xx)’ errors. Nothing has been changed on my side, and I’m not sure how...

2021-06-23 (first published: )

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Are you getting value from your reporting?

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Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...

The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central

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It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...

Git forked

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Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server

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Expanding into Print

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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem

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Question of the Day

The String Distance I

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

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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