Database APIs
Today Steve talks APIs, which are important in much of software development. He thinks we ought to treat our database schema as part of an API.
2023-05-22
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software development
2023-05-10
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2023-05-08
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2023-05-01
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Creating Documentation
Who should create documentation for software? In many companies, it's the developers. In fact, in Redgate, often our developers are tasked with updating articles for products on our documentation site. We do have a streamlined process that has developers can submitting changes in some format (markdown? ) and an automation process that automatically updates the […]
2023-04-26
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A Case for Document Storage
Someone makes a case for using a Document DB rather than a RDBMS. Steve has a few thoughts.
2023-04-24
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Living With Broken Software
Steve has to use software that is broken, but it's OK. It actually works well enough.
2023-04-03
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How to Connect SQL Server and Create C# Objects for Data Management
Learn about how you can work with your SQL Server data from C#. A good basic tutorial for beginning C# developers.
2023-03-24
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Building Recommended Software Practices
Do you have a set of practices for building software in your organization?
2023-02-17
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Coaching the Digital Transformation
Helping your business get value from a digital transformation can start within your own team or group.
2023-02-08
107 reads
Blogs
Stupid Things I Did With AI: ASCII Art
By Steve Jones
I ran across this article recently (https://www.gatesnotes.com/meet-bill/source-code/reader/microsoft-original-source-code) and it has a great opening piece...
Simple Talks Podcasting in 2026
By Steve Jones
I’m in the UK today, having arrived this morning in London. Hopefully, by this...
SSMS 22 still inserting tabs instead of spaces
I’m not trying to start up a debate whether you should use tabs or...
Forums
Cumulative Update 23 - KB5074819 - Database Mail - No longer working.
Hi there, Has anyone else had any trouble with Database Mail in Cumulative Update...
Script Task execution error with HTTP request
I have a script task that tries to execute a HTTP request, which seems...
SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer Edition
Comments posted to this topic are about the item SQL Server 2025 Standard Developer...
Question of the Day
URL Safe or Not?
If I use BASE4_ENCODE() in SQL Server 2025, is the output URL Safe by default?
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