Abuse, Patience, and Understanding

I’ve been struggling with an author for a few months. I tried to work throughs some issues, and I couldn’t get anywhere. This was very frustrating, and I spoke...

Daily Coping 21 Jun 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...

Granting Schema Permissions

Lots of Data and AI Helping Firefighters

Using AI/ML to help process large amounts of data allows us to tackle problems that we might not otherwise be able to work on.

Deceptive Visualizations

I'm sure there are plenty of examples, but I've seen deceptive data visualizations far too often in mass media. I don't often watch the news, but at times I've been at the gym, saw a graph on a television, and been a little surprised. The issue that bothered me is similar to what's discussed in […]

Daily Coping 18 Jun 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...

Default $DebugPreference

Evaluting a DBA

Steve has a few thoughts on hiring and the way in which you might want to evaluate a DBA candidate.

Setting up a Full Text Index–#SQLNewBlogger

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I saw a question recently on  Full Text...

Daily Coping 17 Jun 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...