oPASS Meeting Tonight, July 13, 2010
Our regular monthly meeting is tonight featuring David Pless from Microsoft. Here are some notes about his presentation:
This discussion will...
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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