The Remote DBA
This Friday, Steve Jones asks if you're like to work remotely. With the trend moving this way, mostly for extra hours, maybe you'd like to move that way for most of your work time.
2016-07-15
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Editorial
The New Data Warehouse Choice
Steve Jones looks a little more closely at the Azure SQL Data Warehouse, perhaps a viable choice for many of us.
2020-10-21 (first published: 2016-07-14)
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Losing Rows
MongoDB can lose some rows in queries run very close together. Is that bad? Steve Jones thinks so, though this doesn't mean you shouldn't use MongoDB or any other NoSQL database.
2016-07-13
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2016-07-12
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New Mobile Attack Vectors
With many mobile phones containing malware, Steve Jones notes this could be a problem for data professionals.
2016-07-11
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Going On-Prem?
Is the decision for a new database starting to switch from the default of on-premise to in the cloud? Steve Jones has a few thoughts on when we'll get there.
2020-11-06 (first published: 2016-07-11)
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The Need for Database Intelligence Software
A brief editorial on future database engines having built in intelligence.
2016-07-08
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Fuzzy Processing
There are times when you don't want to get exact mathematical calculations in data processing, and Steve Jones talks about one of them today.
2016-07-07
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The Bad Data Shutdown
Not more hacking, but rather a data error in some cars is disturbing to Steve Jones.
2016-07-05
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Growing Artificial Intelligence
This week Steve Jones discusses artificial intelligence and one of the building blocks that will be needed: data.
2025-12-15 (first published: 2016-07-04)
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Blogs
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Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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