SQLSaturday Update - 215 Registered!
We're at 215 registered with 3 weeks to the big day! This week I'll be having the last planning meeting...
2007-10-21
1,460 reads
SQLAndy
ZFS & Hard Drive Defects
The most recent ACM Queue Magazine (Vol 5 #6, Sep/Oct 2007) had two really interesting articles. The first was about...
2007-10-21
1,501 reads
Suggestions for PASS Published on SSC
I wrote this article shortly after returning from the PASS 2007 Summit and tried hard to come up with ideas...
2007-10-18
1,349 reads
The Troubleshooting List & Replication Statement Delivery Options
All of these are new articles that have gone up on SSC recently. The troubleshooting one was my attempt to...
2007-10-14
628 reads
Bill Graziano Visits oPASS & JSSUG
Bill Graziano (main man at SQLTeam.com, consultant, and VP of PASS) was in town recently to speak at both the...
2007-10-13
683 reads
Schema as Folder
I'm catching up on my reading today and ran across an article from Kathi Kellenberger called Understanding the Difference between...
2007-10-13
604 reads
Partitioning Part 2 Posted on SSC
I'm a couple days late updating the blog, the article went up on Mon.
2007-10-11
572 reads
Views, Temp Tables, Data Types - Aha!
I spent last week onsite with a client teaching performance tuning and it was really a good week. Great company...
2007-10-08
607 reads
Flawed URL Validation and Not Eating Your Own Dog Food
MS includes a bunch of reasonably nice validation controls in VS 2005 and one of them includes the ability to...
2007-09-25
1,380 reads
Building a Local User Group
I've had a couple people ask me about ideas for growing (as opposed to starting) a SQL user group. While...
2007-09-24
1,340 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
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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