Don’t Change Anything
Being responsible for data integrity as well as the cleaning of data can be a problem for an organization. Steve Jones reminds us today that we should be careful about changing the data we work with.
2010-04-07
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Editorial
Can We Skip the Marketing?
Steve Jones has a message for the speakers and presenters from Microsoft today.
2010-04-13 (first published: 2010-04-06)
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Answering to the Business
As data professionals, or IT workers, we often have a lot of insight into how much our services cost and the options that are available. But many times the rest of the company does not. Steve Jones thinks we could be more transparent, and possibly help them to be more efficient.
2010-04-05
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Down Tools Week
Sometimes it's important for a developer or DBA to be given the opportunity to 'shake up their brain'. What falls out is almost always worth having.
2010-04-05
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2010-04-02
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No More NULL
A change in the support for NULL values has Steve Jones commenting on the implications.
2010-04-01
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ORM Mapping
A guest editorial from Phil Factor that discusses ORMs and how they ca be used, or mis-used, in our applications.
2010-03-31
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Why Be an MCP?
With Steve Jones on vacation, we reprint on of his more popular editorials from the past. This was originally published on Feb 14, 2005.
2010-03-30
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Space in the Clouds
Spatial support is coming to SQL Azure soon, and Steve Jones thinks about how the service could improve this support.
2010-03-29
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Open Source is Not a Career Path
A reprint from the early days of SQLServerCentral as Steve is on vacation. Here is Steve Jones' Open Source Musings from February 3, 2005.
2020-06-22 (first published: 2010-03-29)
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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