2016-10-31
56 reads
Editorial
Emotions and Decision Making
Today we have a guest editorial from Grant Fritchey that looks at emotions and how they can affect our decision making.
2016-10-28
106 reads
Who is that masked man anyway?
If you are holding, in your organisation, personal data about real people or commerce, it is wrong, and in many cases illegal to do database development work or testing using your production data. This, of course, probably applies to a minority of database systems, but data breaches caused by attacking backups or copies of production […]
2016-10-24
87 reads
Clownpocalypse and DR
Today we have a guest editorial as Steve is out of town at the PASS Summit. Grant looks at disasters and being prepared.
2020-10-20 (first published: 2016-10-24)
236 reads
Your Technology Budget
How much do you love technology? Is this reflected in a budget? Let us know this week.
2020-10-23 (first published: 2016-10-21)
149 reads
Where Do You Run Your R Scripts?
Executing R scripts can be a heavy load. Today Steve Jones wonders if SQL Server is the best place to execute these.
2016-10-20
436 reads
One Million
The number one million has special meaning to many people. And it's a heck of a metric to achieve in a measurement on a database system.
2016-10-19
82 reads
2016-10-18
154 reads
2016-10-17
95 reads
2016-10-17
163 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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