SQLSaturday #362 – Austin, TX – Let’s Get Weird
I used to spend the 4th of July weekend (or week) in Austin with some buddy’s when we were in...
2015-01-20
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The Smiling DBA
PASS – Connect, Share and Learn
The Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) has a slogan for what they do – CONNECT, SHARE and LEARN. So, what...
2014-12-18
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PASS Summit: Blogger Q&A with Board of Directors Executive Committee
On Thursday, I was invited as a blogger to attend an intimate conversation (Q&A) with the PASS Board of Directors:...
2014-11-07
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PASS Summit 2014
Well, it is that time of year again. The Professional Associations for SQL Server (PASS) annual summit. This year we...
2014-10-29
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Can’t Create A Timeline in Excel on Multidimensional Cube
Excel 2013 - We can’t create a Timeline for this report because it doesn’t have a field formatted as Date.
After getting...
2014-10-15
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PASS got it right
This morning I received an email (really 3 emails) about an extension for voting for the Board of Directors giving...
2014-09-27
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PASS Summit 2014 Announcements
In case you do not receive the PASS connector, here are some announcements for this year’s summit on Nov 3rd...
2014-09-03
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Upcoming PASS Virtual Chapter Webcast (FREE!!!)
As always, there are many free ways to learn more about SQL Server and the Professional Association of SQL Server...
2014-08-08
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PASS Data Arch VC presents SQL Server MVP Grant Fritchey - How to Build a Database Deployment Pipeline
Please come join the Data Architecture VC this Wednesday to get info from MVP Grant about Database Deployment something all...
2014-07-21
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Upcoming Free PASS VC Webcasts
Here is a list of upcoming webcast presented by various PASS Virtual Chapters that are always free. Some are recorded...
2014-07-08
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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
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Dynamic Unpivot
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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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