2020-08-01
116 reads
Career Growth
Honorifics in the 21st century
As data professionals, we should understand how language and forms of address can impact our data model. In the 21st century, we should also learn how to communicate with colleagues in a respectful and professional manner.
2020-07-30
2,414 reads
The Old Way or the New Way
Learning to adapt the way we work is important for advancing our career, but this can be harder than we expect.
2020-07-29
148 reads
2020-07-06
141 reads
2020-07-02
97 reads
A 2020 Look at Software Developers
The results of a survey on software developers has some interesting insights.
2020-07-01
168 reads
Evaluating Life at Work
It can be hard to evaluate your career and job situation, but Steve has some ideas today.
2020-06-19
204 reads
Are You a Gatekeeper?
One of the problems that I've seen in many parts of life is the belief that things must proceed a certain way. I caught an article on ways teachers have made school less fun for kids because they adhered to some rule or belief too tightly. I think many of those stories are true because […]
2020-06-12
188 reads
Sabotage at Work
Some of the work habits that might sabotage an organization appear to have been adopted by some of Steve's former employers.
2020-06-01
264 reads
The Challenges of Working Under Quarantine
It's been nearly two months since the Redgate Software offices closed. I am not normally in the office, but I did cancel a trip that I normally would have taken to touch base with a number of teams. That's a minor change for me, but a still a change. It's much less than the disruption that […]
2020-05-28
128 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Why the following cmds in sequence do not work
I need to delete rows from both the temporal main and history tables. The...
When SQL Server Central Went Down
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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