Review: 2013 Land Rover LR4 Overland Journal Edition
The guys at Overland Journal know how to adventure, and adventure well. Their magazines can be found both on coffee...
2014-02-20
899 reads
Blog Posts
Sometimes Cheaper Makes Sense / Mastering the Basics Always Does
It’s good to remember that the ideas and challenges of mastering a craft – any craft – have been around a while....
2014-02-20
652 reads
The Strange Story About the MERGE that Killed the Cluster
I don’t like the MERGE statement. The syntax is weird, it’s tricky in terms of locks, and it has a...
2014-02-20
4,400 reads
Virtual Lab – Creating Differencing Disks
This is part of my series on building a virtual lab for use with SQL Server and Windows. You can...
2014-02-20
1,178 reads
6000 Companies Hiring #DataScientists
“Search engines (Google, Microsoft), social networks (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn), financial institutions, Amazon, Apple, eBay, the health care industry, engineering companies...
2014-02-19
451 reads
Be Nice
Years ago when I was just out of the Marine Corps and found myself as the only IT guy in an...
2014-02-19
437 reads
Data Scientist versus Data Architect
I recently had the following discussions with a number of data architects, in different communities, in particular (but not limited...
2014-02-19
1,584 reads
DBA Myths: An index on a bit column will never be used.
Not true. (Or I guess probably wouldn’t be posting about it would I?)
Probably the first thing I should point out...
2014-02-19 (first published: 2014-02-17)
2,623 reads
Free Mathematics Books – No really .. you want these!
Here is an alphabetical list of online mathematics books, textbooks, monographs, lecture notes, and other mathematics related documents freely available...
2014-02-19
608 reads
Getting a query plan
Query plans are an essential tool when doing performance tuning. When looking at a query plan you should be aware...
2014-02-19
1,490 reads
Blogs
The end of an era – why I chose not to renew my MVP
By DataOnWheels
Two years ago, two things happened within a few days of each other. I...
PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script
By gbargsley
This is it. The final chapter of PowerShell Strikes Back. Over the past four...
Claude Desktop
By Arun Sirpal
Claude is more than a chat window. The desktop experience includes structured workspaces, generated...
Forums
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Ephemeral Model: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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QUOTENAME Behavior
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Running script without having permission to Function
Good Morning. I have a T-SQL Script which has been developed to execute a...
Question of the Day
QUOTENAME Behavior
I use QUOTENAME() like this in code?
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(20) = 'Steve Jones' SELECT QUOTENAME(@s, '>')What is returned? See possible answers