Hooks
Building hooks from your software into enterprise monitoring systems is prudent, and might save you from a few late night phone calls.
2014-08-29
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Editorial
Reverse Engineering Disasters
Preparing a disaster recovery plan means more than just trying to prevent a few specific disasters. It means turning around the way you view the world.
2014-08-28
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Smooth Database Deployment at SQL in the City 2014
SQL in the City is coming this fall to London and Seattle.
2014-08-26
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Testing is Your Best Investment
One of the things that can make a big difference in how well your software performs is testing.
2014-08-25
138 reads
The Flash Database
What is the impact of flash storage on databases? There are quite a few, but this week Steve Jones asks if SQL Server should do more to take advantage of them.
2014-08-25
185 reads
Production Subsets
Working with data in development or test environments can be challenging. This week Steve Jones asks how you might deal with the volume of data and whether you like subsets.
2022-06-01 (first published: 2014-08-22)
260 reads
Bronze Age Development
The slow pace of Visual Studio development had a number of problems over the years, but Microsoft has dramatically changed the way they build their software for the better.
2021-02-02 (first published: 2014-08-21)
327 reads
Yet Another Attack Vector
The lack of progress in amending our laws to handle the digital revolution in our leaves may leave us open to unexpected attacks.
2014-08-20
134 reads
Artist or Scientist?
In your work, are you an artist or a scientist? Steve Jones knows we need to be both, but when is each appropriate?
2021-02-03 (first published: 2014-08-19)
411 reads
Disconnecting Auditing
Currently we have system administrators responsible for securing our systems, including the auditing capabilities. However that's not the best way to ensure that we can protect our systems.
2014-08-18
98 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 7: Vector and Vector Databases
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 6 we learned Embeddings, Semantic Search and Checks, on Day 7...
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...
Forums
Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
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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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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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