Cutting Edge Technology
Cutting edge technology might vary for many people, and Steve wonders what you think.
2021-01-29
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Editorials
Impact Minutes
When downtime strikes, we may have to make decisions about which systems to focus our efforts upon. Steve talks about the impact of a disaster on your choices.
2021-01-28
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Remembering the Past
We had unfortunately lost quite a few members of our SQL Family. We have a new way to remember them.
2021-01-27
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Live versus Stored Data
Is it always important to have the most current data? Steve notes that you might need to make a decision here.
2021-01-26
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Are You Empowered?
Many people don't feel like they can make changes in their work environment. Today Steve notes this is common in many organizations.
2021-01-25
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Data Privacy Grows in California
Changes in data privacy law in California are demanded by consumers.
2021-01-23
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A Beginning Project
Learning to be a better database developer can be hard. Today Steve asks how you might suggest someone learn.
2021-01-22
270 reads
How to Grow In Your Career
Today Steve Jones gives you ideas on how to keep learning and growing your career.
2021-01-20 (first published: 2018-01-19)
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2021-01-19 (first published: 2018-01-23)
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Default Credentials
Using default credentials is a poor practice, but people still continue to forget to change them.
2021-01-18
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Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers