Local Library Policies
Over the past couple years our local library system has been under financial pressure, resulting in some changes, and maybe...
2010-07-22
988 reads
SQLAndy
Popcorn Networking
A bit of a silly title, but an interesting story. A few weeks back I posted a note about attending...
2010-07-21
605 reads
Introducing Speakers
I saw this post (please do read it) about introducing speakers and it reminded me that I wanted to write...
2010-07-20
547 reads
Finding Your Next Job
We’ve had a few people in the SQL community find jobs lately and many of them attributable to their network....
2010-07-19
518 reads
Reminder – Final Day for Speaker Abstracts for SQLSaturday #49!
You can still submit abstracts through midnight tonight for SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando on October 16, 2010. Great time of...
2010-07-16
881 reads
Book Review: Rework
I recently read Rework by Jason Fried of 37 Signals ($13 @ Amazon) and it talks about a lot of philosophy...
2010-07-16
541 reads
Making Choices Narrows Your Remaining Options
I’ve had variations of this conversation a couple of times lately and thought it was worth writing down some thoughts....
2010-07-15
506 reads
PASS Update #37 (Elections and Re-Election)
We’ve got 6 days left before the call for nominations for the 2010 PASS election closes and I want to...
2010-07-14
852 reads
Notes on the July 13, 2010 oPASS Meeting
Short notes this time, but wanted to get a few thing written down:
Attendance was about 20, lower than expected for...
2010-07-14
472 reads
oPASS Meeting Tonight, July 23, 2010
Our regular monthly meeting is tonight featuring David Pless from Microsoft. Here are some notes about his presentation:
This discussion will...
2010-07-13
216 reads
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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