Does the Tone matter?
Does the tone of communication matters to you that much that it affects your work in some way?
2018-05-15
120 reads
Editorial
How do you deal with disappointment?
Disappointment is hard, but you get to choose how you react to it.
2018-05-14
122 reads
2018-05-11
81 reads
Power BI Desktop on the Mac
Power Bi is one of the neatest tools that Microsoft has built for data professionals. It allows anyone to build fantastic interactive visualizations that can help tell a story and help someone make decisions. There have been some amazing demo visualizations from Microsoft customers. I've seen a predictive maintenance visualization for airplanes, one for diabetes […]
2018-05-10
3,621 reads
Anonymisation Confusion
Steve talks about the difference between anonymisation and pseudonymisation, which can be confusing.
2018-05-09
84 reads
Reading Through the Logs
The problems at TSB Bank in the UK have Steve worried about his own records.
2018-05-08
96 reads
The Technology Journey to Disaster
Phil Factor on a journey that started with a decision to introduce a new IT platform, and ended in a disaster that left TSB customers locked out of their accounts, experiencing problems such as zero balances, incorrect currencies, and massively inflated mortgage amounts.
2018-05-07
315 reads
2018-05-07
80 reads
2018-05-04
149 reads
Reasons to Upgrade
There are always reasons to upgrade or avoid upgrading to a new version. Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2018-05-03
74 reads
Blogs
Monday Monitor Tips: Configuring Access to the MCP Server
By Steve Jones
I have been experimenting with MCP servers in a few ways, including the Redgate...
The GO Barrier: Why SSMS Multi-Server Query Waits for the Slowest Connection
By Zikato
I deployed a schema change to 30 servers using multi-server query and deploy-at-low-priority. Small...
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
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Transaction Log Truncation
In SQL Server 2025, where can I find information about items that prevent or delay the transaction log truncation?
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