The 2019 Home Lab
Steve wants to know what's in your current home lab. Leave a note and help others learn to set one up.
2019-08-09
610 reads
Career Growth
More MVPs Than Awards
Every year, July 1 is the Microsoft MVP Renewal date and quite a few people received good news that day. I was one of those renewed for another year, and I am honored that Microsoft chose me again. I also congratulate all the others that received the award for the first time as well as […]
2019-07-29
277 reads
Learning to Stop Being a Hero
There is a hero complex for many in IT. Steve provides some advice in how we should look at our workload and our employer's expectations when we consider a new job.
2019-07-11
1,111 reads
Building Helpful Commit Messages
Using a VCS is a core skill, according to Steve. One part of that is learning to write better commit messages.
2019-07-08
475 reads
Balancing Hard and Soft Skills
Today Steve talks about the soft skills and why these might be important as you advance in your career and grow into a senior role.
2019-07-02
532 reads
Improving Tech with Compassionate Code
There is quite a bit of suffering within tech and caused by tech, from poorly commented code to shaming someone who asks a question on a forum. In this article, Samuel Nitsche explains why compassionate coding is a better way to go.
2019-06-27
Setting Session Skill Levels
Kathi Kellenberger discusses the challenge of deciding how to describe the content in the sessions she presents.
2019-06-10
373 reads
Cloud Pace
There are a couple big changes that the cloud brings to us. Steve has a few comments today.
2019-06-06
431 reads
2025-06-11 (first published: 2019-05-24)
525 reads
The Ironic DBA—Starting a New and Unexpected Career?
Hey there! I’m Jeff, the latest apprentice at Da...
2019-05-24
Blogs
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...
Don’t Miss Out – SQL Server Query Tuning Fundamentals Starts Next Monday!
Next Monday, February 9, 2026, my one-day live online training SQL Server Query Tuning...
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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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