Half a Year
We're halfway through the 2015 year and Steve Jones has a few thoughts for you this holiday weekend.
2015-07-03
81 reads
Editorial
SSMS Maturity
Announcements recently for changes in SSMS mean that the tool many of us rely on is growing up.
2015-07-02
218 reads
Training Computer Scientists
What's the best way to enter this business? Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the traditional CS degree.
2015-07-01
248 reads
The Importance of Our Work
Work is important, and it's a large part of our lives, but Steve Jones notes we need to keep things in perspective.
2015-06-30
135 reads
Not a cloud to be seen
Phil factor find much to admire in the StackOverflow architecture. It is built on SQL Server, doesn't use microservices or the cloud. It all seems a bit retro, but it manages manage 440 million queries a day, peaking at 8500 queries per second, and never even breaks into a sweat.
2015-06-29
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2015-06-29
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2023-01-16 (first published: 2015-06-26)
438 reads
#SQLNewBlogger
Steve Jones talks about blogging today, how it can help your career, and how easy it can be to get started.
2015-06-25
139 reads
2015-06-24
604 reads
Skill Supply and Demand
Finding staff with the proper skills can be a challenge, and it might be a reason why you choose, or remain with, a particular technology.
2015-06-23
200 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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