Your Technology Budget
How much do you love technology? Is this reflected in a budget? Let us know this week.
2020-10-23 (first published: 2016-10-21)
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Editorials
Conflict in Functional Teams
Today we have a guest editorial from Alice Smith as Steve is away. Conflict can be good in a highly functional team, as noted today from the manager of the publishing group at Redgate Software.
2020-10-22 (first published: 2016-10-13)
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The New Data Warehouse Choice
Steve Jones looks a little more closely at the Azure SQL Data Warehouse, perhaps a viable choice for many of us.
2020-10-21 (first published: 2016-07-14)
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Clownpocalypse and DR
Today we have a guest editorial as Steve is out of town at the PASS Summit. Grant looks at disasters and being prepared.
2020-10-20 (first published: 2016-10-24)
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Chopping Off Data
An ETL issue with Excel causes issues, because the users didn't realize a limitation.
2020-10-19
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Responding to the Call of the Wild
Phil Factor's manual for taming machines, applications, and other wild beasts.
2020-10-17
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Career Goals and Inspiration
Steve asks what you might want to achieve or accomplish in your career.
2020-10-16
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The Degradation of the Turing Test
Are computers getting smart enough to pass the Turing test or are humans getting worse at representing themselves as intelligent?
2020-10-15
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Bean Counting to Burnout
Do meetings and paperwork take a toll on administrators? Steve draws a comparison to some of the changes in the US healthcare system.
2020-10-14
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2020-10-13
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Blogs
One Thousand SQL Saturdays (*ish)
By Steve Jones
This weekend is SQL Saturday #1000, running virtually from Oregon. It’s a good schedule,...
Top Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI questions
By James-Serra
I have listed below the top questions I see from customers about Azure Synapse...
Pre-Conference Workshop and Sessions at PASS Summit
I’m pleased to announce that I will be presenting at PASS Summit. This year...
Forums
why cannot use ClientProcessID to trace data in SQL Server Profile.
A C/S system is running on a SQL Server database, and I get its...
Copying an Azure SQL Database with PowerShell
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Does T-SQL have a way of truncating real and float values?
I'm working on a new app and database, which has real data types in...
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