Windowing Ranges

Hekaton

Competition or Cooperation

Would you rather work with people, or compete with them? Steve Jones has comments on the Microsoft Stack Ranking system that seems to encourage the latter.

SQL in the City and SQL Saturday–Washington DC

Actually, Maryland, but close enough. I’ll be in Chevy Chase this weekend, first for our SQL in the City Seminar...

Is Your Data Relational?

An RDBMS is a good fit for many database problems, perhaps as Steve Jones thinks, the best fit for most. However NoSQL systems have a place, we're just not sure where.

Wildcards II

Happy Thanksgiving 2013

It's a holiday in the US and it's a fun break for many people.

Thanksgiving 2013

Checking Up on Developers

This Friday Steve Jones has a poll about developers. Help compile a good list of common mistakes made in SQL Server.

Content in the Cloud

Steve Jones has some concerns over new options in SQL Server 2014 that might lead some customers to experiment in a way that causes them unexpected pain.