Moving On After a Technology Fail
After his watch broke, Steve had to get a new tool and isn't sure it was a good move.
2025-02-21
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After his watch broke, Steve had to get a new tool and isn't sure it was a good move.
2025-02-21
66 reads
Steve reminisces about the older technology of putting words on paper, often from the web.
2024-10-04
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2024-09-27
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Steve is a little disappointed in technology that didn't work well after a security incident.
2024-09-25
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2024-09-21
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Writing editorials every few weeks for a technical mailing list has been one of the more challenging responsibilities in my (nearly) two years with Redgate as an advocate working with Steve, Grant, and Louis. Each week, it’s interesting for me to see the mix of technical insights and everyday life stuff that each of us […]
2024-08-31
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A cloud version of Aurora MySQL has added support for the buffer pool to survive restarts of the database engine. Steve thinks that's an interesting technology, which could be helpful.
2024-01-12
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2023-11-24
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I've been fairly healthy and fit for most of my life. While I've always had a few extra pounds, I do try to eat better than average and I exercise regularly. That didn't stop age and some pandemic laxity from catching up with me. My annual checkup last December had my doctor (and me) slightly […]
2022-03-05
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One of the more analog industries is embracing digital change faster and faster./
2021-08-11
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By Steve Jones
This value is something that I still hear today: our best work is done...
By gbargsley
Have you ever received the dreaded error from SQL Server that the TempDB log...
By Chris Yates
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distant concept. It is here, embedded in the...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Planning for tomorrow, today -...
We have a BI-application that connects to input tables on a SQL Server 2022...
At work we've been getting better at writing what's known as GitHub Actions (workflows,...
I try to run this code on SQL Server 2022. All the objects exist in the database.
CREATE OR ALTER VIEW OrderShipping AS SELECT cl.CityNameID, cl.CityName, o.OrderID, o.Customer, o.OrderDate, o.CustomerID, o.cityId FROM dbo.CityList AS cl INNER JOIN dbo.[Order] AS o ON o.cityId = cl.CityNameID GO CREATE OR ALTER FUNCTION GetShipCityForOrder ( @OrderID INT ) RETURNS VARCHAR(50) WITH SCHEMABINDING AS BEGIN DECLARE @city VARCHAR(50); SELECT @city = os.CityName FROM dbo.OrderShipping AS os WHERE os.OrderID = @OrderID; RETURN @city; END; goWhat is the result? See possible answers