Build a Career Radar
A technology radar can help you assess what's important and where to focus your effort. Companies use these, and Steve Jones says you should as well.
2018-02-23
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Editorial
An AI Loophole
We can't always explain how AI systems work. Steve Jones wonders if this is a loophole in the GDPR legislation.
2018-02-22
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Brush Up on Your ETL Skills
The need for data imports, exports, and transformations seems to be growing.
2018-02-21
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2018-02-20
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Building Culture
The origins of PASS have shaped its culture for years. Are you doing the same in your organization?
2018-02-19
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Template Configuration
Extended Events is a much more complex system and profiler, and the use of templates can reduce the complexity
2018-02-16
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Muddle Through
Perseverance and continued effort, even when you lack knowledge or skill is extremely valuable for a technology professional.
2018-02-15
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Valentines Day for Data Professionals
Today Steve Jones asks about how your relationship is at work.
2018-02-14
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2018-02-13
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Database Taming
Sometimes a database can seem to be as willful as a colt. Taming it requires an iron nerve, and unflinching eye contact. Occasionally though, you need to know when to jump the fence and regroup.
2018-02-12
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
By James Serra
I’m honored to be hosting T-SQL Tuesday — edition #192. For those who may...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 3: LLM Models – Open Source vs Closed Source
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 2 , we learned introduction on Generative AI and Agentic AI,...
How to Parameterize Fabric Linked Services in Azure Data Factory for Azure Devops Deployment
Quite the title, so let me set the stage first. You have an Azure...
Forums
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Question of the Day
A Quick Restore
While doing some testing of an application, I wanted to reset my environment after doing some testing with this code:
USE DNRTest BACKUP DATABASE DNRTest TO DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' GO /* Bunch of stuff tested here */RESTORE DATABASE DNRTest FROM DISK = 'dnrtest.bak' WITH REPLACEWhat happens if this runs, assuming the "bunch of stuff" isn't anything affecting the instance. See possible answers