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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software development
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
194 reads
Coaching the Digital Transformation
Helping your business get value from a digital transformation can start within your own team or group.
2023-02-08
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2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-02-04)
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What's the Edge Case?
Building software means not only considering the data people expect, but also edge cases. Steve asks if you know what those edge cases are?
2022-11-14
249 reads
Cone of Uncertainty
Our design and modeling is often done with some level of uncertainty. Steve has a few guidelines today.
2022-10-26
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2022-10-24
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2022-10-17
98 reads
Code Supply Chain Security
Building software is becoming harder as new attacks try to inject malicious code into products.
2022-10-12
119 reads
Blogs
Simplify Kubernetes Security With Kyverno and OPA Gatekeeper
Here’s how these tools can make Kubernetes security easier and help you avoid common...
A New Word: Lackout
By Steve Jones
lackout – n. the sudden awareness that you’re finally over someone, noticing that the...
Delta Lake over Spark Connect
By Ed Elliott
All Spark Connect Posts I have just finished an update for the spark connect dotnet...
Forums
Shades and Reflecting on SQLBits and the Bright Future of Data
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Shades and Reflecting on SQLBits...
Merge techniques
In Azure SQL DB, i want to merge records from the staging table to...
SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant value...
Full error message: SSRS error: The Value for the image 'Image1' has a constant...
Question of the Day
Adding Defaults
I have a table, called dbo.logger, in SQL Server 2022. I decide to add two new columns to this table with this code.
ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD CreateDate DATETIME CONSTRAINT dfGetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() GO ALTER TABLE dbo.logger ADD ModifyDate DATETIME DEFAULT dfGetDate GOWhat happens when I run these two batches? See possible answers