Steve Jones

My background is I have been working with computers since I was about 12. My first "career" job in this industry was with network administration where I became the local DBA by default. I have also spent lots of time administering Netware and NT networks, developing software, managing smaller IT groups, making lots of coffee, ordering pizza for late nights, etc., etc.

I currently am the editor of SQL Server Central and an advocate/architect at Redgate Software. I am also the President of SQL Saturday, maintain the T-SQL Tuesday monthly party, and remember our colleagues at sqlmemorial.org.

You can find out more about me on my blog (www.voiceofthedba.com) or LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com/in/way0utwest)

Interests: yoga, reading, biking, snowboarding, volleyball

Twitter: @way0utwest
Website: https://www.voiceofthedba.com
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Defining FKs in CREATE TABLE–#SQLNewBlogger

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral Blogs

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

2018-05-14 (first published: 2018-05-03)

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Reaching the Refactoring Redoubt with #SQLPrompt

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral Blogs

I enjoy themes, and when I ran across the SQL Prompt Treasure Island, I had to take a few minutes...

2018-05-14

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TRY_CAST in the WHERE clause.

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

TRY_CAST()

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2018-05-14

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Interviewing Avatars

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Maybe you'll be able to send your avatar to an initial phone screen one day.

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2018-05-11

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XE in Azure

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Extended Events (XE)

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2018-05-11

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Finding Tabs in SSMS–#SQLNewBlogger

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral Blogs

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as...

2018-05-10

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One Million Tables

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

T-SQL

A quick experiment to create one million tables in a database.

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2018-05-10

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Power BI Desktop on the Mac

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral.com

Editorial

Power Bi is one of the neatest tools that Microsoft has built for data professionals. It allows anyone to build fantastic interactive visualizations that can help tell a story and help someone make decisions. There have been some amazing demo visualizations from Microsoft customers. I've seen a predictive maintenance visualization for airplanes, one for diabetes […]