No-code Software Engineering
The idea that software engineers might be better with no-code tools is a direction Steve thinks is misaligned with the problem. We should help developers learn to be better.
2021-05-01
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Editorials
Documentation. The Under Recognised Skill
Documentation may not be something we aspire to do, but it is a valuable skill.
2021-04-30
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Ransomware May Get Worse
Criminal groups using ransomware are working together, which is bad news for all organizations.
2021-04-29
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2021-04-28
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A Cloud Database for Statistics
A company decides to move to the cloud and outsource database administration.
2021-04-27
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2021-04-26
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Looking Forward to SQL Server vNext
Releases of on-premises SQL Server arrived quite rapidly for a few years with seven releases during the years spanning 2008 and 2019. While it has technically been less than two years since SQL Server 2019 reached general availability in November 2019, it feels like ages since we have heard any news about what’s coming next. […]
2021-04-24
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Office FOMO
There are many things we may miss about the office, but one of them is the chance to interact with and impress management.
2021-04-23
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2021-04-22
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Changing Edge Security
Security is changing, and the "edge" of where we need to protect data is changing as well.
2021-04-21
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Blogs
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Accessing the Data API Builder MCP Server from VS Code
By Steve Jones
I recently started playing with the MCP Server for SQL Server, which is a...
From DBA or Data Engineer to AI Engineer: A Realistic Path
If you spend your days tuning queries, managing pipelines, or keeping a production database...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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