Your Technology Budget
How much do you love technology? Is this reflected in a budget? Let us know this week.
2020-10-23 (first published: 2016-10-21)
150 reads
Editorials
Conflict in Functional Teams
Today we have a guest editorial from Alice Smith as Steve is away. Conflict can be good in a highly functional team, as noted today from the manager of the publishing group at Redgate Software.
2020-10-22 (first published: 2016-10-13)
192 reads
The New Data Warehouse Choice
Steve Jones looks a little more closely at the Azure SQL Data Warehouse, perhaps a viable choice for many of us.
2020-10-21 (first published: 2016-07-14)
278 reads
Clownpocalypse and DR
Today we have a guest editorial as Steve is out of town at the PASS Summit. Grant looks at disasters and being prepared.
2020-10-20 (first published: 2016-10-24)
238 reads
Responding to the Call of the Wild
Phil Factor's manual for taming machines, applications, and other wild beasts.
2020-10-17
135 reads
Career Goals and Inspiration
Steve asks what you might want to achieve or accomplish in your career.
2020-10-16
242 reads
2020-10-13
163 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
94 reads
2020-10-10
147 reads
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
308 reads
Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Forums
SQL Art, Part 4: Happy 4th of July — A British DBA's Guide to Celebrating a War We Don't Talk About
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Is Fabric a Reliable Service or a Ripped Resource?
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Is Fabric a Reliable Service...
locking down agent for new user on our dev machine
hi , a new user wants to be able to add sql agent jobs...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT I
In SQL Server 2025, I have a table (dbo.UserPermission) that contains this data:
UserID UserPermissions 15 23 37What is returned when I run this code:
select bit_count(UserPermissions) as PermissionCount from dbo.UserPermission where UserID = 3;See possible answers