The Forever Technology War
The differences in our understanding of technologies can make for some communication challenges.
2020-11-05 (first published: 2016-11-01)
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Editorial
Analysis Services Lives On
The release of Analysis Services in Azure means the platform has a future.
2016-10-31
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2016-10-31
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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2016-10-18
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Blogs
TRY_PARSE Limitations: #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I got a notification from a question I’d posted at SQL Server Central: Getting...
SQL Server sa Account Security: Rename, Disable & Best Practices
By SQLPals
SQL Server sa Account Security: Rename, Disable & Best Practices In...
Stanford Emerging Technology Review 2026 Report is out
By Brian Kelley
Artificial Intelligence and quantum computing are two areas of emerging technology that receive most...
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A Limited Startup
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