Who's Smarter? Humans or AI Systems?

The growth of AI has Steve Jones a bit worried.

Changing a the Linux port

Daily Coping 8 Oct 2021

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

The Last SQL Server Service Pack

SQL Server 2016 SP3, the last service pack ever is out. Steve comments on how the world of software patches has changed.

Crossing Borders

I’m about to cross a country border for the first time in almost two years. I last left the United States in December 2019. Today I’m flying to Belgium...

Daily Coping 7 Oct 2021

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Changing a Container Collation

Choosing State Over Migrations

Steve notes that there are differences between state based development and migration based development, but neither is necessarily better.

Daily Coping 6 Oct 2021

I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...

Using NULLIF–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I ran across the NULLIF() function recently, and...