A New Word: Dead Reckoning
dead reckoning– v. intr. finding yourself bothered by somebody’s death more than you would have expected, even if they were only an abstract presence in your life, like a...
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dead reckoning– v. intr. finding yourself bothered by somebody’s death more than you would have expected, even if they were only an abstract presence in your life, like a...
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I wrote a piece on the new SUBSTRING in SQL Server 2025 and got asked a question. How do we get the last last name, such as only getting...
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If you aren’t watching the Ignite keynotes today, then you might have missed the announcement that SQL Server 2025 officially releases today. The main SQL Server page gives you...
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Last week I asked you to write about SQL Server 2025 and what things you might be looking forward to in the new version. First, as usual, is Rob...
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AI can help us do more, but do we need to do more? Or more importantly, are we doing a good job of producing more useful stuff?
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By Steve Jones
It’s Prime Day. A few of my recommendations, since I want to do some...
With Fabric Mirroring, Microsoft is promoting a nice and appealing story for operational reporting...
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems...
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I have this code on SQL Server 2022. What happens when it runs all at once?
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbo.Commission GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Commission (id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) CONSTRAINT CommissionPK PRIMARY KEY , salesperson VARCHAR(20) , commission VARCHAR(20) ) GO INSERT dbo.Commission ( salesperson, commission) VALUES ( 'Brian', 12 ), ( 'Brian', 'None' ) GOSee possible answers