The value of mentoring
I’ve spent my whole career working with databases which is over 20 years and counting. I work for a great company and I love what I do. The job...
2020-08-28 (first published: 2020-08-17)
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Blog Posts
A Quick SQL Change Automation Build
I was going through a few of the Redgate products with a customer recently and they wanted to perform some validation of the build and release process with SQL...
2020-08-27 (first published: 2020-08-19)
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As a DBA, am I a gatekeeper?
TL;DR; Yes Frequently in our industry we talk about gatekeepers as bad things. We talk about breaking down barriers and ... Continue reading
2020-08-27
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Azure SQL Database Automatic Tuning
I really like the automatic tuning aspect of Azure SQL Database. This post is not a full explanation and demo. Instead, I want to point out a small point...
2020-08-27 (first published: 2020-08-17)
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Daily Coping 27 Aug 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-08-27
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Daily Coping 26 Aug 2020
I started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter and to the Community Circle, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m...
2020-08-26
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GCP Refresher – Intro, Free account with 300$ credit, Service Model, Cheat Sheet & Billing
[MSSQLFUN & Decode ITeS becomes a family of 1700 individuals across the globe. Please join us onFacebook & YouTube.] Let’s review our GCP concepts. Refresher – Intro, Free account with 300$...
2020-08-26
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Measure Ethical Data Analysis by Outcomes, Not Intent
Note: co-authored with Christine Assaf, originally published in the now-defunct PASS Blog.
In January 2020, Robert Williams was arrested on his front lawn in a suburb of Detroit, Mich., after police...
2020-08-26
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SQL Clone Works with FILESTREAM
SQL Clone is an amazing product that virtualizes your data, allowing multiple instances to share a read only image, but still produce writeable databases that look normal to SQL...
2020-08-26 (first published: 2020-08-12)
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Using the Xero OAuth 2.0 API from a .NET Core console application
This is not a post about SQL Server, but I need to write about something that I’ve been struggling with for a number of weeks so that other people...
2020-08-26
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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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