Many of you reading this likely have an Availability Group (AG) set up on at least one database in your organization. Maybe not most, but many of you as this has proven to be a technology that many people like for HA/DR, upgrades, and probably other uses. As the technology has evolved from it's SQL […]
2025-09-17
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Are the AI tools developers use making them enjoy their jobs more or less? Steve has a few thoughts.
2025-09-15
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Older technology can introduce security issues, along with performance ones. Keeping your systems somewhat up to date is important for security.
2025-09-12
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Passwords are essential and also a problem in many organizations. Guidance has changed over the years and Steve has a few thoughts on what's recommended today.
2025-09-10
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Steve found someone using an interesting approach to get developers to address some technical debt.
2025-09-08
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2025-09-06
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We have some requirements that we meet a particular setting or value, but often we have guidelines and recommendations. Do you know the difference?
2025-09-05
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Many of the GenAI services are using the free model of the past, where they use your data in ways you might not expect. Now, a court is ensuring OpenAI keeps your chat data around.
2025-09-03
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This Friday Steve Jones wonders about the upper limits for what you may learn in a year.
2025-09-01 (first published: 2016-04-08)
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Steve has a few thoughts on the lack of data sovereignty in the cloud, with an outlook that isn't very positive.
2025-08-29
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A table without a clustered index (heap) will NOT suffer from fragmentation during frequent updates or deletes. True or False?
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