Good Security Needs Layers
A good security system needs layers since our applications and platforms don't exist in a vacuum.
2018-04-18
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Editorial
Machine Learning Challenges
Machine Learning is an exciting branch of computer science, but it doesn't solve all our problems.
2018-04-17
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In Depth Learning at the PASS Summit
The pre-conference sessions for the 2018 PASS Summit were released.
2018-04-16
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Desperation on the Forums
Grant talks about the challenges of helping people in online forums and getting them to learn rather than grab the first solution.
2018-04-16
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2018-04-13
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Considering Other Views
When we build software, are we empathetic to how others (literally) view our software?
2018-04-12
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2018-04-11
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2018-04-10
154 reads
Stumbling over Words
Phil Factor argues that the ability to write simply and expressively is a much under-valued skill in IT, and explains the main traps to avoid.
2018-04-09
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What's Downtime?
Steve asks the question today of how you might measure downtime and the scope you are concerned about.
2018-04-09
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Blogs
A Broken Copilot Query
By Steve Jones
I was testing the new SSMS (v22 Preview 3) with Copilot and ran into...
SQL Server Alerts
By Kevin3NF
Don’t Let Trouble Sneak Up on You Most SQL Servers run quietly. Until...
Prompt AI helping with Auditing
By Steve Jones
I had a conversation with a customer asking this question: how can I tell...
Forums
Create an HTML Report on the Status of SQL Server Agent Jobs
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Create an HTML Report on...
Collation errors...what is best way to deal with it?
Hi I have a SP that occasionally get this error: Cannot resolve the collation...
Was the index created or not?
Hi everyone I am getting an error when I create the index but I...
Question of the Day
Estimated Rows
I have two calls to the GENERATE_SERIES TVF in this code:
SELECT TOP 10 gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 10) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE); go DECLARE @a int = 10; SELECT TOP (@a) gs.value FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, @a) AS gs ORDER BY NEWID () OPTION (RECOMPILE);In the actual query plans, what is the estimated number of rows for each batch in SQL Server 2022? See possible answers