2020-11-12
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Editorials
2020-11-11
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Do What Hurts
When you struggle with a software task, the best advice is to do it more often and get better at the task, not avoid doing it.
2020-11-10 (first published: 2019-10-22)
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Building Bad Software Faster
DevOps doesn't mean just building software faster. Quality matters as well.
2020-11-09
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Automatic Install of Azure Data Studio
Microsoft recently announced that you’ll get Azure Data Studio (ADS) when you install SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) starting with version 18.7.1. Azure Data Studio has been around for a couple of years, and it has some great features that most of us never imagined for SSMS, like the ability to connect to PostgreSQL databases […]
2020-11-07
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Going On-Prem?
Is the decision for a new database starting to switch from the default of on-premise to in the cloud? Steve Jones has a few thoughts on when we'll get there.
2020-11-06 (first published: 2016-07-11)
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The Forever Technology War
The differences in our understanding of technologies can make for some communication challenges.
2020-11-05 (first published: 2016-11-01)
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Maintaining Data in a Flow
One of the challenges of using scripts is maintaining them and ensuring the adapt over time.
2020-11-04
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2020-11-03
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The Separation of Tools
SSMs and ADS are the new tools for SQL Server and the data platform, both of which are now available separately from SQL Server.
2020-11-02
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
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Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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