2023-10-06 (first published: 2017-01-30)
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Editorial
2017-01-30
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How Much Code Can You Review?
Code reviews are a part of many developers' lives, but is there a limit to what you can do effectively?
2023-10-09 (first published: 2017-01-27)
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The New SQL Server 2016 Edition Limits
There are some changes to memory limits in SQL Server 2016 SP1 Standard Edition.
2017-01-26
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The War Room
When things go wrong, how do you handle them? Steve Jones comments on crisis management using a great example from Amazon.
2017-01-25
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Something I learned while unemployed
Being unemployed is difficult. Here's something I learned to help me through it.
2017-01-24
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2017-01-23
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2017-01-23
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Legacy Limits
Sometimes the hardware or software we use prevents upgrades, which isn't necessarily good for any of us.
2017-01-20
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The (Former) Complexity of PowerShell
Steve Jones notes that PowerShell seems to becoming an easier to use language for SQL Server professionals.
2022-03-09 (first published: 2017-01-19)
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers