Slipping in a Break
I know some people like long holidays, but I tend to prefer short ones. Today is one of those breaks...
2012-06-11
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Blog Posts
Sorry, Mikko, the box was already open
In a blog post F-Secure's Chief Research Officer, Mikko Hypponen (blog | twitter), indicated that with the US participating in cyberattacks...
2012-06-11 (first published: 2012-06-05)
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SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries (June 2012)
Here is the latest version of my SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries, with some minor tweaks and improvements, including...
2012-06-11
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Data Quality; the road to Accurate Reporting
I am sure you have heard of the term; garbage in garbage out. This maxim is even more true when...
2012-06-10
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PASS 2012 Summit: November 6-9
I just received an email message from the PASS Global Summit 2012 organizers after submitting session abstracts a few weeks...
2012-06-10
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2012-06-10
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What’s it Like to Be a DBA?
Absolutely fantastic of course!
You regular readers know that the Becoming a DBA area of the blog is one of the...
2012-06-10
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Don’t Pass Null
I’ve been rereading an excellent book called “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin. This book has some practices that each...
2012-06-08
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June 2012 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
It’s the first Monday of the month, have you checked your servers out? Do you know that everything with your...
2012-06-08 (first published: 2012-06-04)
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Microsoft Master Data Services in SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server Master Data Services (MDS) is a Master Data Management (MDM) product from Microsoft. Master Data Services is...
2012-06-08 (first published: 2012-06-04)
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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...
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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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