A few months ago, I wrote a post on how I use voice technology to continue working with my ALS condition. Since that post was written, Microsoft released a...
2023-04-14 (first published: 2023-03-28)
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In the last post, I created a baseline marker for Flyway in each database. This set the version in the dev and QA databases to v1. However, I also...
2023-04-12
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Did you know that you can change the browser used by SQL Server Management Studio to authenticate using Azure Active Directory to a SQL database in Azure? I had...
2023-04-12 (first published: 2023-03-28)
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SQL doesn’t really give us too many tools out of the box to allow us to spot when someone may be up to no good. We can look at...
2023-04-12 (first published: 2023-03-29)
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Throughout my career, I’ve worked on a LOT of different SQL Servers. Many that were installed and configured by application administrators, developers, vendors, and data professionals. I’ve seen servers...
2023-04-11
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I delivered a session on graph databases, and in it I used RedisGraph to show how you can work with graph data on that platform. This blog shows a...
2023-04-10
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This is part of a series of new job blog posts. You can find them all here. Last week was the first week of the rest of my life....
2023-04-10 (first published: 2023-03-24)
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Hello Dear Reader! Hopefully you had a great weekend. This weekend was filled with gatherings. On Saturday we gathered with friends and had a really nice Game Night.... where...
2023-04-10
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What is Docker? Docker is a famous platform for building, shipping, and running container applications. What are containers? Containers are a way to package software in a portable and...
2023-04-10 (first published: 2023-03-27)
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I am not a great software developer. I’m OK, and I do know how to use Google and Stack Overflow well. Maybe my best skill is wording searches well?...
2023-04-07 (first published: 2023-03-22)
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By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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