2021-04-09
144 reads
Editorials
2021-04-08
236 reads
Growing Outside of the English World
The world is bigger than one country, and Steve is trying to remember that.
2021-04-07
87 reads
Removing SA from Azure SQL Database
Azure SQL Database is getting the ability to turn off SQL authentication.
2021-04-06 (first published: 2021-03-23)
844 reads
Maintenance Windows
Is it better to ask forgiveness than permission? Some people take that approach to maintenance windows, but that isn't permissible in the cloud.
2021-04-05
169 reads
Malleable Source Control
Git has proved to be a better fit to the needs and workflow of a database development team than anything that came before. Git is valuable because it encourages branching and merging, giving more choice in the way that your team can work. Due to the ease with which you can adapt Git, there is […]
2021-04-03
208 reads
I Hate To Send This Email
Steve Jones wonders how many of us have had to send, or will have to send this email.
2021-04-02 (first published: 2017-03-23)
465 reads
Expanded Support for Non-Windows SQL Server
Steve is excited that SQL Server is moving to a new platform.
2021-04-01
148 reads
Constant Integration
Apple buys a company every few weeks. The data integration for this must be a large effort.
2021-03-31
106 reads
Generating Art
Using metadata to drive software is very useful, which means that having clean data and lots of metadata can help create better software.
2021-03-30
75 reads
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...
Forums
BIT_COUNT() V
Comments posted to this topic are about the item BIT_COUNT() V
How We Reduced SQL Server Infrastructure Costs by 33% on AWS: Lessons From a Database Operations Manager
Comments posted to this topic are about the item How We Reduced SQL Server...
An Eventual Consistency Scam
Comments posted to this topic are about the item An Eventual Consistency Scam
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers