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Communication Issues

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When you have a team of people working together to manage systems, communication becomes important. Steve Jones notes that a lack of working with each other and letting the rest of the team know what you are doing can cause unnecessary work for others.

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2009-11-23

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Easy Licenses

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Software licensing can be complex and confusing. Even in Windows and SQL Server, where hard limits are not enforced, people have problems determining how they should license software. Steve Jones talks about what vendors could do to help us.

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2009-11-19

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Surely It Should Just Work?

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Does a programmer need to know how his code gets executed? Arguably, developers should focus on database structures rather than a particular implementation, and Phil tries to convince us that good programming is not just knowing everything about your programming environment.

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2009-11-16

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Testing at Scale

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It seems that many companies don't have the luxury of working with a variety of hardware configurations to test their architecture before deploying their applications. Some of the issues involve time and some involve tools. Steve Jones has an idea that could help with the latter today.

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2009-11-16

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The String Distance I

In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:

SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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