Last Day in the UK
The driver behind the move
After over two and a half years at my current employers I am afraid to say...
2014-04-01
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Blog Posts
Make it Work, Make it Fast, Make it Pretty
When I first heard this, it struck me as being a remarkably concise wisdom applicable to virtually any programming task....
2014-04-01
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Microsoft announces that it will no longer support SQL Server and that SQL 2014 was an April Fools Joke!
Microsoft has announced that SQL 2014 was in fact an elaborate April Fool’s joke and that Microsoft intends to move...
2014-04-01
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Microsoft announces that it will no longer support SQL Server and that SQL 2014 was an April Fools Joke!
Microsoft has announced that SQL 2014 was in fact an elaborate April Fool’s joke and that Microsoft intends to move...
2014-04-01
408 reads
New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read more about all of that here. Something that hasn’t...
2014-04-01
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New Backup Behavior in SQL 2014
As has been well publicized, today is the official Release To Manufacturing date for SQL Server 2014. You can read...
2014-04-01
927 reads
New Undocumented Feature in SQL Server 2014
Today is the eagerly anticipated launch of SQL Server 2014, I have downloaded and installed a copy of the RTM...
2014-04-01
1,093 reads
Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB Come to SQLServerCentral
We’re in for a name change. As of May 1, we’ll be welcoming the Oracle and MySQL communities to SQLServerCentral....
2014-04-01
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Solid State Tapes–Prelaunch News!
Note: Sorry for the vague details on the tech part, you’ll get all of that tomorrow – this is what I...
2014-04-01
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SQL Saturday Lisbon
It’s a little over a week until this year’s SQL Saturday festivities kick off in Lisbon, Portugal, and I’m very...
2014-04-01
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Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Forums
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
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What's the Date?
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Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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