PASS Summit Birds of a Feather Lunch
The absolute biggest part of the PASS Summit is the one thing that most people don’t take advantage of, networking....
2010-10-13
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The Scary DBA
SQL Saturday New England: The New Date
The real world can get in the way of important things like SQL Saturday. In the case of SQL Saturday...
2010-10-12
564 reads
SQL Saturday New England: The Date
Mark your calendars. Make your travel arrangements. Plan on being in the Boston area on April 16th, 2011. Three of...
2010-10-05
543 reads
SQL Saturday in New England
Adam Machanic (blog|twitter) has put on a SQL Saturday/Data camp event in New England for the last two years. I’ve...
2010-10-04
396 reads
How to Tell if Execution Plans are Reused
I try to watch the search phrases that point people to the blog because sometimes, you get a sense of...
2010-10-04
446 reads
Parameter Name Size And Performance
I saw an odd statement the other day, “The size of the name of the parameter does not affect performance.”...
2010-09-27
1,027 reads
SQL Saturday 46 (#sqlsat46) Recap
I was privileged to be able to attend and present at SQL Saturday 46 in Raleigh, NC, this last weekend....
2010-09-20
826 reads
Links From Twitter
Normally, I try to stick to posting technical info or community stuff on the blog, but there were a couple...
2010-09-07
569 reads
Recursive Hiearchies in Reporting Services
I am not a Reporting Services guru and nor do I play one on TV. I am however forced to...
2010-09-03
2,654 reads
Upcoming Presentations: #24HOP & #SQLSAT46
Blogging has been a bit quiet of late. That’s because I’ve been spending a lot my spare time getting ready...
2010-08-30
765 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
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...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Why End-User Testing Is Even...
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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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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