SQL Server Should Work for Us
SQL Server is a great platform, but there are problems in places. Steve Jones thinks that fixing some issues might be a good investment for Microsoft.
2013-06-19
193 reads
Editorial
The Best Programmers
How do keep the best programmers? Steve Jones has a few thoughts that might cause you to rethink how you manage your programming stars.
2013-06-18
372 reads
Trust
Why does the IT industry seem to act and run so differently than many other industries? Steve Jones takes a stab at explaining this.
2013-06-17
131 reads
Losing Data
As data professionals, we want to avoid losing data. We won't always be successful, but we can avoid making the easy mistakes.
2013-06-17
105 reads
Do You Want a Meritocracy at Work?
The best at their crafts are usually the most rewarded in sports, but not necessarily in other fields. This week Steve Jones asks if you would like it to be different?
2013-06-14
186 reads
The Five Year Plan
Is your IT department outdated? There's a prediction that they won't be around in five years. Steve Jones doesn't agree.
2016-12-12 (first published: 2013-06-13)
381 reads
Data Vision
Computer vision has been something that researchers have worked on for years. We have no shortage of cameras, and we are starting to see the computing systems behind these devices starting to actually understand what is being seen. That understanding is very valuable. Will we see something similar happening in our SQL Server technologies?
2013-06-12
98 reads
The Watson Service
IBM's Watson project continues to grow and the latest implementation might be one that affects many of us in our daily lives.
2013-06-11
114 reads
No R2
The next version of SQL Server was announced last week and Steve Jones is pleased with the name.
2013-06-10
305 reads
When Windows don’t provide illumination
Microsoft through its various GUIs tries hard to "protect" users from SQL, but Phil Factor argues that we don't need protection from code. We just need a better way to "document" the syntax.
2013-06-10
149 reads
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
Forums
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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