SQL Saturday Jacksonville
I just wrapped up a high-octane day of SQL Server community education at SQL Saturday in Jacksonville, Florida. This event,...
2008-05-04
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Blog Posts
Are Backup Devices Obsolete?
I thought they were, but I've had a bit of a debate in the forums with someone. There was a...
2008-05-02
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Displaying Multi-select Parameters in SSRS
Including the parameter values to the physical report so they get printed with the business data is a best practice...
2008-05-02
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Off-topic: The Citadel Honors Class That Did Not Graduate
The purpose of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, is to prepare South Carolina's citizen soldiers. It is...
2008-05-02
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Podcast Upgrades
A minor change for the podcasts next week. I got my wireless microphone, and I'm working with it a bit...
2008-05-02
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Looking for Incremental Improvements
If you've read my blog much you'll know that I'm deeply involved in trying to figure out how to build...
2008-05-01
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Technorati
I've never really been a big fan of many of the aggregation sites. As such I have never really used...
2008-05-01
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The Post Count
One of the things that I made a conscious effort to do last summer was make a regular effort to...
2008-05-01
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Review of Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability
I grabbed Pro SQL Server 2005 High Availability by Allan Hirt recently to add to the library and I've been...
2008-04-30
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Building Raffle Tickets for SQLSaturday
Raffle tickets have become a mainstay of our events, making it easy to handle the large volume of items donated...
2008-04-29
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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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