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
Editorial
The Stress of a Former DBA
Rodney Landrum impresses on his audience the importance of attention to the finer details, during data analysis and reporting.
2015-06-22
227 reads
Sweat Files and Practice Projects
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that looks at side projects and how you might actually grow our careers.
2015-06-18
177 reads
Culture Clashes and Arrogance
A guest editorial from Andy Warren looks at the disagreements between teams in technology.
2015-06-17
212 reads
Five Minute Refactoring
The debate over how to change code or solve a problem can create arguments that last for years. Steve Jones notes the idea of limiting debates to five minutes is interesting.
2015-06-15
176 reads
The Challenges of Space
CSS Engineers at Microsoft are reporting more space issues with database systems. Steve Jones has a few comments.
2015-06-15
137 reads
2015-06-12
133 reads
Practical Hekaton
Steve Jones is searching for anyone that is using In-Memory OLTP tables in production.
2015-06-11
164 reads
Archive Every Day
There are challenges with the large scale archiving of data. Steve Jones talks about rethinking this as a daily process rather than a periodic one.
2015-06-09
458 reads
When Should We Be Cleaning Data?
Part of our job as a data professional often deals with the movement and cleaning of data. However, should we be trying to reduce the work we do? Move the burden to the application? Steve Jones has a few comments.
2015-06-08
179 reads
Blogs
The end of an era – why I chose not to renew my MVP
By DataOnWheels
Two years ago, two things happened within a few days of each other. I...
PowerShell Strikes Back: A New Script
By gbargsley
This is it. The final chapter of PowerShell Strikes Back. Over the past four...
Claude Desktop
By Arun Sirpal
Claude is more than a chat window. The desktop experience includes structured workspaces, generated...
Forums
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Ephemeral Model: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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QUOTENAME Behavior
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QUOTENAME Behavior
I use QUOTENAME() like this in code?
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(20) = 'Steve Jones' SELECT QUOTENAME(@s, '>')What is returned? See possible answers