Data Privacy Grows in California
Changes in data privacy law in California are demanded by consumers.
2021-01-23
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Editorials
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
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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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Who is my customer?
My final job in my previous career was at a hospital. I worked there for five years in the 90s before getting my first position as a developer. While I didn’t love the career I was leaving, I did appreciate what I learned from that last job. Part of the onboarding included a short class […]
2021-01-16
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Improving Availability Groups
Availability Groups are a good way to use High Availability in SQL Server, Today Steve wonders if you have any improvements you would make to the technology.
2021-01-15
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Microsoft Fights Back
Microsoft fights back against hackers after a recent vulnerability in a management framework.
2021-01-14
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2021-01-13
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Reassess Your Configuration
It's a good idea for anyone managing systems to periodically check them and see if anything needs to change.
2021-01-12
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Blogs
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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