Guidelines and Requirements
We have some requirements that we meet a particular setting or value, but often we have guidelines and recommendations. Do you know the difference?
2025-09-05
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Editorials
Concerns over AI Chat Privacy
Many of the GenAI services are using the free model of the past, where they use your data in ways you might not expect. Now, a court is ensuring OpenAI keeps your chat data around.
2025-09-03
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How Much Can You Learn?
This Friday Steve Jones wonders about the upper limits for what you may learn in a year.
2025-09-01 (first published: 2016-04-08)
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Data Sovereignty in the Cloud
Steve has a few thoughts on the lack of data sovereignty in the cloud, with an outlook that isn't very positive.
2025-08-29
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2025-08-27
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2025-08-25 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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Why Tech Events Matter for Data Pros (and why I’m grateful)
I just got back from the Redgate Summit events in New York City, where I had the chance to present, swap stories, and nerd out with a lot of brilliant data folks. I came home energized… and then promptly slept for 14 hours on Thursday. That’s the best kind of exhaustion in my book. The […]
2025-08-23
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Your Favorite Improvement
This Friday Steve asks about what you're looking forward to in SQL Server 2025, if anything.
2025-08-22
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Can You Ask for a Raise?
Asking for a raise is a scary event for many employees. Today Steve gives you a few things to think about and some advice on how to go about changing your job.
2025-08-20
98 reads
The Next Great Thing
Is AI going to kill off a lot of data professional jobs? Steve doesn't think so, but judge for yourself.
2025-08-18
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Blogs
The DIY Cost of Masking Test Data For Smaller Organizations
By Steve Jones
One of the things I’ve tried hard to do in database development situations if...
T-SQL Tuesday #196 – Two risky career decisions I made
By DataOnWheels
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you...
T-SQL Tuesday #192: What career risks have you taken?
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally...
Forums
XACT_ABORT being set to ON by web services
We have two "identical" instances of an ASP.NET web service (or so I have...
OPENQUERY Flexibility
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OPENQUERY Flexibility
Which of these are valid OPENQUERY() uses?
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