Hacking the Admin
A Twitter hack brings into the question of who can make changes in production for Steve.
2020-07-22
470 reads
Editorials
2020-07-21
90 reads
A Dedicated Space
Today Steve looks at one possible future of offices, which might be something we own.
2020-07-20
170 reads
Digging Into Internals
There are plenty of experts that look to teach you about query tuning and the internals of query execution in SQL Server.
2020-07-18
165 reads
Your Data After Life
Today Steve thinks about what to do when planning for your digital assets after you pass.
2020-07-17
367 reads
Carefully Giving Normal Users Security Permissions
When we need to delegate work to less privileged users, Steve has an idea.
2020-07-16
198 reads
2020-07-15
173 reads
2020-07-14
121 reads
Beating the Cloud Vendors
Can you run a system better than cloud vendors? You should know and be able to prove it.
2020-07-13
140 reads
Controlling Intelligent Query Processing Features
I always look forward to new T-SQL features and optimizer enhancements with every new version of SQL Server. Starting in 2017, Microsoft came up with a set of features called Intelligent Query Processing (IQP). These features work to improve performance without changing any code. If you’d like to learn more about these features, take a […]
2020-07-11
821 reads
Blogs
Google – NotebookLM on ThakurVinay blog
By Vinay Thakur
Google has contributed a lot of stuff/enhancement on its portfolio, google is no longer...
Distance Metrics for Semantic Similarity Searches in SQL Server 2025
Next up in my series talking about The Burrito Bot is diving into the...
The end of an era – why I chose not to renew my MVP
By DataOnWheels
Two years ago, two things happened within a few days of each other. I...
Forums
Unraveling the Mysteries of the Ephemeral Model: The Fabric Modern Data Platform
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QUOTENAME Behavior
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Running script without having permission to Function
Good Morning. I have a T-SQL Script which has been developed to execute a...
Question of the Day
QUOTENAME Behavior
I use QUOTENAME() like this in code?
DECLARE @s VARCHAR(20) = 'Steve Jones' SELECT QUOTENAME(@s, '>')What is returned? See possible answers