Helping Students with a Data Professional Career
Steve has advice for students looking to become data professionals.
2025-06-02
107 reads
Career Growth
Rising Pay for Certifications
People with certifications are seeing their pay rise faster than others. Steve has a few thoughts on this today.
2025-05-05
133 reads
2025-04-30
107 reads
2025-04-21
223 reads
Is GenAI Coming Faster Than You Think?
GenAI technologies have created a lot of concern among many tech workers. Steve has a few thoughts on how these technologies might impact data professionals.
2025-03-31
123 reads
AI Tools for Job Seekers – Salary
In our conversations with job seekers, a consistent theme has been HOW do you use AI tools. This can be used to get new ideas, improve and optimize resumes, understand trends/market data, determine new connections and networking avenues, save time, alleviate headaches and roadblocks, and be more efficient and effective overall. Well, say goodbye to the days where you need to start a cover letter or resume from scratch or feel isolated, alone, and anxious during the resume writing, interview prep, salary negotiation, and other parts of the job search process, as we all now have an incredibly powerful job searching tool and career coach at our disposal to help with any writer’s block and almost every challenge you may run into!
2025-03-19
The Job Outlook for Database Professionals
The job outlook for database professionals is good, but it's not that easy to get a great job. Steve has some advice for you today.
2025-03-05
216 reads
No End to Programmers
The idea of chat-oriented programming has led some people to think that AI LLMs will reduce the need for programmers. Steve disagrees.
2025-02-08
124 reads
Can You Become a More Productive Engineer?
Steve has a few thoughts on becoming more effective. This involves more than just becoming a better coder.
2025-01-24
148 reads
Adding the Right Value
Are you doing the things at work that your boss cares about or the things you care about? Steve has a few thoughts on this.
2025-01-08
166 reads
Blogs
A Basic Update Trigger: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I had someone ask me about using triggers to detect changes in their tables....
Apply for a 2025 PASS Summit Scholarship
By Brian Kelley
Redgate is offering 13 PASS Summit scholarships which not only includes the 3-day ticket...
SQL Server TempDB: The Most Overlooked Bottleneck
By Kevin3NF
Configuration, Performance, and Unnecessary Usage TempDB is the SQL Server equivalent of a junk...
Forums
Best/easiest way to import an SSIS package...
Folks, Looking for advice on the best way to import a package. I hope...
Measure duplicating its value when non-conformed dimension attribute is included
Hi, I have two fact tables (say FactA, and FactB), that are joined/shared...
balancing numa nodes
Can anybody advise on how i go about balancing threads to each node. As...
Question of the Day
How Many Nested Triggers?
I have DDL trigger code that I'm working on in SQL Server 2022, but I am concerned that we might end up with multiple triggers firing and the response to the user is delayed. If I want to check how many triggers have fired, or are nested, how can I do this in my code?
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