Responding to the Call of the Wild
Phil Factor's manual for taming machines, applications, and other wild beasts.
2020-10-17
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Editorials
Career Goals and Inspiration
Steve asks what you might want to achieve or accomplish in your career.
2020-10-16
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The Degradation of the Turing Test
Are computers getting smart enough to pass the Turing test or are humans getting worse at representing themselves as intelligent?
2020-10-15
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Bean Counting to Burnout
Do meetings and paperwork take a toll on administrators? Steve draws a comparison to some of the changes in the US healthcare system.
2020-10-14
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2020-10-13
162 reads
How Important is a Conference?
Is going to a conference valuable for you? Your employer? Today Steve asks you to think about what might be important.
2020-10-12
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2020-10-10
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What's the Lunch Factor?
DevOps is about being effective and getting work out to customers. Today Steve notes that the lunch factor might help you reexamine your software development process.
2020-10-09
307 reads
Pulling Together
A number of companies worked together to ensure that they could meet the challenge of the NHS. Sharing data was critical to this effort.
2020-10-08
124 reads
AI Data
Data is important for AI projects, but the ethics and privacy implications are complex. A new project from Microsoft aims to help users control their data and make it available for use.
2020-10-07
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
Having a Little Fun at SQL Server Central
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Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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