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A New Word: Zverism

zverism – n.  the wish that people could suspend their civility and indulge in the physical side of each other first, sniffing each other’s hair like dogs, staring unabashedly...

2025-03-28

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EightKB 2025

EightKB is back! The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2025…it’s all happening on August the 21st! We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit...

2025-03-28 (first published: )

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On the Internet, the Walls Have Ears

I received a sobering reminder this week of a lesson we all have learned or should have learned long ago. Something I said online came back around months later...

2025-03-26 (first published: )

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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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