How many environments?
This Friday Steve Jones looks at the setup for your software pipeline. He's wondering how complex it is with how many separated environments.
2015-08-14
149 reads
Editorial
The Tally Table
The tally table is a valuable tool for a SQL Server developer, but how many of you understand how to create and use one?
2025-12-26 (first published: 2015-08-13)
808 reads
Business Pressures
The business pressures can often change how we work, or even how we build our software. A few notes on Github from Steve Jones.
2019-09-10 (first published: 2015-08-12)
278 reads
Making Guesses
When working on a new database, Steve Jones hesitates to make too many guesses, or at least, too many exact guesses.
2021-03-05 (first published: 2015-08-11)
214 reads
Deploy from VCS
Are you brave enough to redeploy your applications from a VCS? Have you really captured all your code?
2015-08-10
89 reads
2015-08-10
123 reads
Teambuilding
This week Steve Jones wants to know about your efforts to create bonds with co-workers and build a team. Does your company do anything to help facilitate this?
2015-08-07
112 reads
2015-08-06
252 reads
Cloud Security Issues
The cloud is always going to be a challenge for security, but is it harder or easier than on premises? Steve Jones has a few comments.
2015-08-04
142 reads
2015-08-03
245 reads
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
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...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
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