Data Loss
A new study shows potential corruption issues with solid state drives when power is cut under a load. That can have implications for data professionals as more databases incorporate SSD storage.
2013-03-04
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Editorial
Why SQL Server?
This Friday Steve Jones asks you how you got started working with SQL Server in your career? Let us know how you got started and why you stuck with it.
2013-03-01
269 reads
More Evolution, More Complexity
As SQL Server advances and evolves, Steve Jones thinks it gets more complex, not necessarily easier to administer.
2013-02-28
124 reads
The Microsoft Sideshow
Microsoft hasn't performed well on the stock market across the last decade, but the company has changed. There are cries that the business has been mismanaged and today Steve Jones has a few comments.
2013-02-27
172 reads
Look Beyond the First Result
As computer systems become more complex and dynamic, it's possible that the results we see might not be what we expect. Steve Jones talks about a situation with Orbitz.
2013-02-26
128 reads
The Dark Side
Steve Jones talks a little about Oracle after speaking at an event devoted to that technology.
2013-02-25
211 reads
Deploying Databases to the Azure Cloud: an extended plea
Is there a sound technical reason why SQL Azure can't support extended properties?
2013-02-25
174 reads
Early Software
This week Steve Jones reminisces about the first software he used. He asks you what inspired you to start working with computers.
2013-02-22
113 reads
Fix the Little Things
There are any number of small, annoying or tedious things in SQL Server and Steve Jones makes a case for getting them fixed. Today's editorial was originally published on Nov 11, 2008. It is being re-run as Steve is out of town.
2013-02-21
153 reads
Impressive Accomplishments
What things impress you most about potential candidates. This week Steve Jones asks the question to try and understand what types of activities data professionals might consider.
2016-09-09 (first published: 2013-02-15)
263 reads
Blogs
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...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Forums
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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String Similarity II
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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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