Agree or Lose Features
Forcing users to agree to a new EULA or removing features seems like a bad idea to Steve.
2021-05-26
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software development
Should You Learn R or Python?
Both Python and R have become very popular languages in the last few years, especially among data professionals. Which should you learn or use? Steve has a few thoughts.
2021-05-21
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Holding Code in Your Head
Steve has a few thoughts on software development and coding today when working in teams and trying to keep the entire solution in your head.
2021-05-03
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No-code Software Engineering
The idea that software engineers might be better with no-code tools is a direction Steve thinks is misaligned with the problem. We should help developers learn to be better.
2021-05-01
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2021-04-26
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2021-04-15
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2021-04-14
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Generating Art
Using metadata to drive software is very useful, which means that having clean data and lots of metadata can help create better software.
2021-03-30
59 reads
How Quickly We Forget
One of the interesting things about modern software is how updates are handled.
2021-03-29
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2021-03-25
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Blogs
Microsoft Announcement: Microsoft Fabric
Yesterday at Microsoft Build, a significant announcement took place—the introduction of Microsoft Fabric, which...
Introduction to SQL Server Query Store
Introduced with SQL 2016, Query Store was, probably without doubt, the most anticipated and...
Flyway with Multiple Folders
By Steve Jones
A customer asked about how they could organize their migration scripts in different ways...
Forums
Iterate Through Tables, Using a Control Table w/ a List of Tables to Process?
I'm trying to create an SSIS package that will query a master control table...
Database copy issue through - COPY DB WIZARD
I have a production server with SQL server 2016 version (13.0.5026.0) and a database...
Help with a SQL Unpivot
I am trying to use unpivot to extract some data, however, the results are...
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