How are you recharging this year?
Steve Jones asks about your plans to get away from work and refresh yourself.
2018-06-29
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Editorial
String or binary data would be truncated
This is an error that has plagued SQL Server for a long time. It should be fixed.
2018-06-28
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2018-06-25
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2018-06-21
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Providing Feedback to Speakers
One of the greatest things that has arisen in the past 10 years or so is a veritable stream of great conferences for people to learn how to write better software, many of them low cost or even free. In the Data Platform community, we have had nearly 800 free SQL Saturday events around the […]
2018-06-18
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More Query Tuning?
What types of sessions are important in a conference schedule? Steve Jones talks a bit about the lack of tuning sessions.
2018-06-15
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Building Test Data
Steve talks about the importance of test data and how to get it in development environments.
2018-06-14
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2018-06-13
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Machine Learning in the Database
Steve talks about Machine Learning Services in SQL Server and whether using this is a good idea.
2018-06-12
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2018-06-11
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers