Log Analytics with Azure Synapse Analytics
There are a lot of services in Azure. Way more than a few. What is something you want to do with all your services and applications? You want to...
2021-11-01
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Blog Posts
Log Analytics with Dedicated SQL Pools (Formerly SQL DW)
There are a lot of services in Azure. Way more than a few. What is something you want to do with all your services and applications? You want to...
2021-11-01
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Log Analytics with Dedicated SQL Pools (Formerly SQL DW)
There are a lot of services in Azure. Way more than a few. What is something you want to do with all your services and applications? You want to...
2021-11-01
49 reads
Log Analytics with Dedicated SQL Pools (Formerly SQL DW)
There are a lot of services in Azure. Way more than a few. What is something you want to do with all your services and applications? You want to...
2021-11-01
12 reads
Skirmishes with automated deployment of Azure Data Factory
When it comes to Azure Data Factory deployment, I always have a few words to say. You might be aware that there are two approaches in this terms. I...
2021-11-01
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Daily Coping 29 Oct 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-10-29
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External Temp Tables Preventing Plan Reuse in Stored Procedures
Here’s an interesting issue that recently came up. We were seeing very high compilations and recompilations on a server to the point that it started causing us some very...
2021-10-29 (first published: 2021-10-19)
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Group By Starting Characters
I was chatting with Jeff (b|t) on my team yesterday and the context escapes me but I had this thought: “Can you Group By the beginning characters, or a...
2021-10-29 (first published: 2021-10-22)
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The First Live SQL Saturday in 2021
I’m getting ready to board a plane now, heading to Orlando for the first live SQL Saturday in 2021. I’m excited and looking forward to seeing friends that I’ve...
2021-10-29
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Daily Coping 28 Oct 2021
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2021-10-28
11 reads
Blogs
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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The String Distance I
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The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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