SQL Server # Database Backup Report using T-SQL
Today, I am going to share few very useful scripts which will report us on Database Backup from different view...
2012-10-18
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Blog Posts
SQL Server # TSQL to Convert STRING in PROPER format
Problem Statement
SQL Server has got in-built functions to convert the given string into LOWER() or UPPER() format but it does...
2012-10-18 (first published: 2012-10-15)
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This December – An Introduction to SQL Server 2008
This December I will be presenting An Introduction to SQL Server 2008 Hand-On for Learning Tree at the LEC in...
2012-10-18
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UDL files with TRUSTED authentication - a security risk?
Hi everyone,
So the other day on twitter in #sqlhelp and privately with some friends at Microsoft and elsewhere I had...
2012-10-18
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Upcoming Webinar: Building Dynamic SSRS Reports with Analysis Services
Join me next week for a really fun presentation on building Dynamic SSRS
reports using Analysis Services cubes as a...
2012-10-18
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Virtualizing Your Business Critical SQL Servers – Free Boot Camp by House of Brick – Update
Just before SQL PASS Summit in November, House of Brick and I will be holding a free boot camp (update – link removed after event was...
2012-10-18
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Visio 2010 Workaround: Application Hangs when opening ‘Database Model Diagram’ template
I received the following error today when attempting to use Visio’s ‘Database Model Diagram’ template under category ‘Software and Database’.
The...
2012-10-18
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Visio 2010 Workaround: Application Hangs when opening ‘Database Model Diagram’ template
I received the following error today when attempting to use Visio’s ‘Database Model Diagram’ template under category ‘Software and Database’. The program VISIO.EXE version 14.0.6122.5000 stopped interacting with Windows...
2012-10-18
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VMware vCenter Server 5.1 will soon support Microsoft Hyper-V management
Recently VMware announced at VMworld Europe that it will soon release a product called vCenter Multi Hypervisor Manager, supposedly in...
2012-10-18
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Auditing changes in Merge Replication
One trick I have learned from the folks on the Replication Support Team is how to proactively audit data changes...
2012-10-17 (first published: 2012-10-10)
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Blogs
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
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...
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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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