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
145 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?
2015-08-13
671 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)
271 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)
212 reads
2015-08-10
118 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
84 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
109 reads
2015-08-06
249 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
135 reads
But we've always done it that way…
Inspired by his visit to the battlefield of Waterloo, Grant Fritchey explains the dangers of doing things the way you've always done them and the need to challenge constantly your beliefs and understanding of how the technology you manage works.
2015-08-03
144 reads
Blogs
Creating a Striped Backup Set with AI
By Steve Jones
I needed to test a striped backup, so I decided to ask the AI’s...
SQL Server Migration Overview
By Kevin3NF
It’s Not Just Backup / Restore At some point every company faces it: the...
Trace Flag 1448 – Lessons from a Technical Interview
By gbargsley
In SQL Server environments where transactional replication runs alongside Always On Availability Groups (AGs),...
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Question of the Day
Strange String Splits
When I run this code, how many rows are returned?
DECLARE @meals NVARCHAR(1000) = N'夕食昼食朝食' DECLARE @s NVARCHAR(1) = N'食' SELECT value FROM STRING_SPLIT(@meals, @s) GOSee possible answers