Daily Coping 9 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 Order of Operations

T-SQL Tuesday #127–Non SQL Tricks

Today is T-SQL Tuesday, with this month being hosted by Ken Fisher. This is an interesting topic, looking at tips, but ones outside of SQL Server. Since many of...

What's a Normal SQL Server?

Many of us have worked in environments that have a number of SQL Server instances. Different versions, editions, and mostly different hardware profiles. We deal with different applications and software that places different demands and requirements on our database systems. Some of us are even dealing with multiple datastores, trying to integrate SQL Server with […]

Daily Coping 8 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...

Double Half and Quarter

I've worked in a a couple very high performing organizations that adapted to changing conditions and built software well. I've worked in more poorly performing organizations that struggled to release updates and patches, causing tremendous stress for the IT staff.  DevOps is designed to help improve our software delivery and quality, if you work on […]

Mail in Azure SQL Database

Reading an dataset in R

I got a dataset file the other day with an .rds extension. I had never seen this, but with a quick Google, I figured out this was a dataset...

Social: A Small Step to Address Poor Past Behavior

Tl;Dr – This is about changing your main branch in git to main. However, please read and think about what I am saying here. When I started working with...

The Social Impact of Data

Let the data drive your decisions. This has been something of a mantra for many technical people, and even many business people, across the last twenty or so years. The allure of business intelligence is harnessing lots of data to make decisions that are rooted in some rational analysis of what has happened. Many companies […]