Cloud Storage. Make it the present instead of the future.
In which Phil Factor wonders why all the different cloud storage offerings are so different, sparse in their features, crude and incompatible
2013-11-11
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Editorial
What Do You Want to Learn?
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know what do you want to learn more about in SQL Server? It's the end of the year, with lots of speakers winding down their events, but looking forward to next year. Let us know now what you'd like to learn about in 2014.
2013-11-08
127 reads
Effectiveness
Today Steve Jones notes that your software should handle the load and work, but it needs to get done as well.
2018-01-24 (first published: 2013-11-07)
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Project Hekaton
Today Steve Jones talks about the Hekaton features that are coming in SQL Server 2014.
2013-11-06
313 reads
Testing Matters
Testing matters for software and Steve Jones points out a current example of where cutting testing has caused lots of problems.
2013-11-04
96 reads
Going over their heads: IT Decisions
Phil factor points out that Marketing people who appeal directly to enterprise CIOs are generally wasting their time, and are better off convincing IT people in general.
2013-12-02 (first published: 2013-11-02)
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Becoming an MVP
Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the Microsoft MVP program and the desire of many people to become an MVP.
2013-10-31
290 reads
What's in a Name?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren as Steve is speaking at SQL Intersection today. Andy talks about how names can impact our world.
2013-10-28
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Escape from ETL Hell
What often starts out as a simple, quick process, gradually expands over time, as developers use SQL Agent to schedule new data feeds, add more complex transformations...
2013-10-28
229 reads
Recharge and Relax
Steve Jones has vacation planned for the remainder of the year and encourages you to make sure you are taking your own time off.
2013-10-23
112 reads
Blogs
Distance Metrics for Semantic Similarity Searches in SQL Server 2025
Next up in my series talking about The Burrito Bot is diving into the...
The end of an era – why I chose not to renew my MVP
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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...
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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