2016-07-04
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Editorial
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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An example of how networking netted a new job
Today we have a guest editorial as Steve is away on vacation. You often hear about how important it is to network. This is a story of how my network helped me get a new job.
2016-07-01
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Monitoring and Alerting
Knowing what is happening on your systems, and being told when a system is not behaving normally is very important for administrators. Steve Jones has a few thoughts on monitoring today.
2016-06-30
260 reads
Email or Username
One of the things that can be an issue in database design is the data used to identify a user.
2016-06-29
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Democratic Data Science
Data science is hot now, but work is being done to use the power of software to handle some of the grunt work with data analysis problems.
2016-06-28
97 reads
DevOps and Security
Are DevOps and security diametrically opposed? An interesting pieces says no, and Steve Jones comments.
2016-06-27
78 reads
SQL Server 2016 is Out and It's Fabulous!
On the First of June, SQL Server 2016 was officially released. While it is still early days to measure the full impact of the release, the one thing that is exceedingly clear is that this is a very successful software release. There have been very few complaints online beyond the standard heard during any upgrade: […]
2016-06-27
163 reads
Have You Designed a Database from Scratch?
An interesting question from Steve Jones today, asking what is your experience with designing databases.
2016-06-24
188 reads
Why Use R Services?
R Services were added to SQL Server 2016, and there are customers using this feature to improve their business processes.
2016-06-23
188 reads
Blogs
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Unraveling the Mysteries of the Ephemeral Model: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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QUOTENAME Behavior
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QUOTENAME Behavior
I use QUOTENAME() like this in code?
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(20) = 'Steve Jones' SELECT QUOTENAME(@s, '>')What is returned? See possible answers