Stress Thoughts–Part 1
If I had to tell you that one thing I’ve gotten better at in the past 5 years it would...
2012-03-26
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Blog Posts
Building the Enterprise DW/BI System with SQL Server PDW
Building the Enterprise DW/BI System with SQL Server PDW
Most readers considering a Parallel Data Warehouse already have a data warehouse...
2012-03-25
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Coming to Dallas: Something for Everyone
Everybody loves the carnival. It only comes around every few years, but when it does, it brings in a variety...
2012-03-23
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Dell Quickstart Data Warehouse Appliance for SQL Server 2012
As a follow-up to my blog Microsoft SQL Server Reference Architecture and Appliances, Dell recently announced the future availability of Dell Quickstart...
2012-03-23
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Google Research
Interesting to see someone talking about all the research Google is spending money on, which aren’t directly related to their...
2012-03-23
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Re-blog – March 16 – March 22
Welcome to the Friday Re-Blog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer readers may...
2012-03-23
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SQL Server RESTORE DIFFERENTIAL BACKUP WITH SIMPLE RECOVERY
First thing this morning – a request from a DBA to confirm if Differential BACKUPS can be restored on a database...
2012-03-23
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Trim Functions in SSIS
In T-SQL there are many functions there to help do a variety of different things. SSIS is no different. In...
2012-03-23
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Change your Windows path
When you run something from the start menu or in a Windows command prompt, you type the program name to...
2012-03-22
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Event ID 7026 and i8042prt troubleshooting
Event ID 7026 and i8042prt is a recurring error in the Windows Event Logs. I usually see this error on...
2012-03-22
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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...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
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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