The term DevOps gets horribly abused. Don’t get me started on all the weird additions to it like DevSecOps. No, I just mean the term itself gets beaten up quite a lot. It’s to the point where people are starting to shy away from talking about it. I’ve even changed my approach when discussing DevOps […]
2020-10-24
155 reads
Over the years when I changed careers and then advanced in IT, many people helped me learn or provided opportunities. Some of these people gave specific in-person help, like my brothers who taught me programming logic and database normalization before I ever thought about working in technology. Others assisted from a distance when I read […]
2020-09-05
166 reads
I always look forward to new T-SQL features and optimizer enhancements with every new version of SQL Server. Starting in 2017, Microsoft came up with a set of features called Intelligent Query Processing (IQP). These features work to improve performance without changing any code. If you’d like to learn more about these features, take a […]
2020-07-11
735 reads
Steve notes that many of us might not completely understand every part of our database, but it's information that can be helpful in cleaning out unnecessary entities.
2019-04-10
551 reads
Using code to help you write code is a time honored tradition in software development.
2023-08-16 (first published: 2019-04-09)
552 reads
Steve reminds some people that there are reasons to continue to improve your skills.
2019-04-08
1,746 reads
Azure Data Explorer is a platform from Microsoft that might be an interesting fit
2019-04-05
363 reads
2019-04-04
654 reads
Today Steve has an announcement about his role in moving Books Online forward.
2019-04-01
531 reads
Last week was the MVP Summit. This year included a bunch of very technical discussions about some of the future of the Microsoft Data Platform (a big thank you goes to Slava Oks, Bob Ward, and all the team for a great job). I can’t share much since it was all under NDA. All I […]
2019-03-30
498 reads
By Steve Jones
I got a message a few months back that Microsoft was deprecating the MySQL...
By James Serra
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In the current (2024) version of the Data Migration Assistant, which on-premises targets are available?
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