Database Queries and Scalability
Does the database limit the scale of your application? Without a doubt, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't use an RDBMS.
2013-10-21
279 reads
Editorial
Grow Your Family
This Friday Steve Jones asks you to network at your next event and meet more people in the amazing SQL Server community.
2013-10-18
108 reads
Open Arms
Steve Jones looks back at a networking event this week in Charlotte. Networking is valuable to your career and it can be a tremendous amount of fun as well.
2013-10-17
110 reads
Four Years Later
Are we thinking cloud first for database servers? Steve Jones reflects on predictions made four years ago and thinks about how the world has changed for the cloud.
2013-10-16
144 reads
The Case of the Lost Card
Protecting our physical systems usually involves some type of security at the office. For many of this, we have some type of key card system. Andy Warren asks today how you handle things and does it work well.
2013-10-14
143 reads
The 2013 SQL in the City Tour
Steve Jones starts the 2013 SQL in the City tour today. At least for him. He's on an airplane in order to be ready for the first US event tomorrow.
2013-10-08
154 reads
IT Security
A recent survey says IT security is a major concern for many businesses. Steve Jones wonders why they don't make more of an effort to implement better security in their applications and processes.
2013-10-07
146 reads
The Ratio
How many developers does it take to overwhelm a DBA? It's an interesting question, and this week Steve Jones asks how many you actually support.
2013-10-04
169 reads
Hybrid Databases
We are getting more and more types of data that we have to manage and store in our databases. Steve Jones notes that SQL Server can handle almost all your needs.
2013-09-30
209 reads
Competence trumps a good cultural fit
Phil Factor reflects on how the people who made the industry great, in the past, were often eccentric, rebellious, odd, truculent, but all blessed with the gift of creating wonderful software. Today, such people would struggle to get pass the first interview.
2013-09-30
209 reads
Blogs
SQL Saturday Boston Slides and Code
By Steve Jones
Thanks to everyone who attended my sessions today at SQL Saturday Boston 2025. I’ve...
Scaling SQL Server 2025 Vector Search with Load-Balanced Ollama Embeddings
SQL Server 2025 introduces native support for vector data types and external AI models....
Advice I Like: Fear and Imagination
By Steve Jones
Fear is fueled by a lack of imagination. The antidote to fear is not...
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The New SQL Server 2025 Data type
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new data type designed to support similarity search and machine learning applications for AI applications. What is this new data type?
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