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Social: Stepping Back and Embracing a Difference of Thought

I do think that we want to have diversity, for a number of reasons, but this means in many cases, embracing differences. My editorial today is on Gatekeepers, which...

Daily Coping 11 June 2020

I’ve 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 Benefits and Detractions of Remote

Working from home during the pandemic is likely to change many things, and Steve discusses a few today.

Using Tempdb

Column Mean in R

Daily Coping 10 June 2020

I’ve 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...

Missing Data

During a watch repair, Steve misses some data.

Next week is EightKB–The SQL Server Internals Conference

Next week, on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, the EightKB conference takes place. As with other events, it’s online, and it is full of high level content. It looks to...

Adding the Social Headline Topic

The world is changing, and the activism is infectious. I’ve tried to be fairly apolitical and unoffensive for most of my career. I definitely have not always succeeded, but...