How Often Do You Patch?
Patching is a chore that any system administrator needs to deal with. As SQL Server 2016 moves out of mainstream support, Steve asks if you have a plan and how often you ensure systems are patched.
2021-07-23
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Seriously Real Time Data Processing
Autonomous cars provide a great environment for large scale, real-time data processing.
2021-07-19
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Lots of Data and AI Helping Firefighters
Using AI/ML to help process large amounts of data allows us to tackle problems that we might not otherwise be able to work on.
2021-06-21
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Finding Legal Data
Using data scraped from the web might be convenient, but is it legal. Perhaps more importantly, is it moral? Steve has a few thoughts.
2021-04-19
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Disclosing the How
As we use more Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools in our applications, we need to understand how they work.
2021-03-08
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AI Can Improve Healthcare
One area where AI has found some traction is in the healthcare industry, where is seems to be helping improve care.
2021-02-08
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The Degradation of the Turing Test
Are computers getting smart enough to pass the Turing test or are humans getting worse at representing themselves as intelligent?
2026-06-12 (first published: 2020-10-15)
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AI Data
Data is important for AI projects, but the ethics and privacy implications are complex. A new project from Microsoft aims to help users control their data and make it available for use.
2020-10-07
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The Computing Revolution
Steve reflects on some of the ideas of how Microsoft imagines the future of computing.
2020-07-27
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Smarter Design
Many of us have used PowerPoint, which has grown smarter through the use of Machine Learning.
2020-05-13
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Blogs
My Social Media Rules
By Brian Kelley
I developed these rules a while back, before COVID. I had a period of...
Why Use TRY_PARSE(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
Someone asked why I would use TRY_PARSE after I posted a question at SQL...
A Guatemalan's Guide to Drinking Coffee Properly
My mugI grew up surrounded by coffee farms in Guatemala and somehow spent most...
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OUTER APPLY Fundamentals: Part 2
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Question of the Day
The Range of Customers
I have this data in the OrderHeader table in a SQL Server 2025 database (ordered by CustomerID ASC):
orderid orderdate customerid complete 3 2025-05-10 00:00:00.0002 1 21 2024-01-10 00:00:00.0003 1 15 2023-10-28 00:00:00.0004 1 13 2025-03-08 00:00:00.0006 1 11 2024-04-02 00:00:00.0007 1If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT * from dbo.OrderHeader where customerid between 3 and '6'See possible answers