Can a Data Professional Be Organized?
“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” While this quote is true...
2017-05-05 (first published: 2017-04-25)
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The SQL Professor
SQL Doc by RedGate
I recently was on a call where a technical unit indicated they did not receive any form of documentation around...
2017-04-24 (first published: 2017-04-19)
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T-SQL Tuesday #89 Invitation – The times they are a-changing
This month’s topic by Koen Verbeeck (B|T) is based around times that are a changing. To break it down somewhat...
2017-04-11
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Don’t Duck On Responsibilities
Being a data professional you assume a certain amount of responsibility. It often requires having the right attitude and an...
2017-04-17 (first published: 2017-04-10)
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Are You Wasting Energy?
Often times we as leaders within our respective shops tend to waste our time focusing on the wrong things. Think...
2017-04-06
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Is There A Threat Inside?
If you’ve been involved in technology for any length of time you are aware of outside threats to your network...
2017-04-05
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How I Became A…SQL Server Data Professional
Last night I saw a tweet from Matt Gordon (b|t); the topic caught my eye – “How I Became A…SQL Server...
2017-04-04
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What Is SQL Saturday?
I was recently approached and asked, “What is SQL Saturday? I actually get asked that question more times than not...
2017-04-03
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The Pen Cap
This post is for all you up and coming data professionals out there. Over the course of the last week...
2017-03-21
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A Letter To A Younger Yates
Hello much younger Yates. Hope you’ve been doing well. Why don’t you pull up a chair and stay for a...
2017-01-31
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Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers