2026-03-20
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Editorials
Changing Data Types
Steve had to deal with a customer that changed data types in columns often. Is that something you experience?
2026-03-18
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Breaking Down Your Work
Self-assessment and self-examination can be important in many fields, especially technology in the age of AI.
2026-03-16
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Multiple Deployment Processes
Many organizations haven't standardized the way they deploy code to databases, even when they do so for applications. Steve has a few thoughts on this today.
2026-03-13
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A Full Shutdown
Steve used to shut down systems to upgrade them, but lately he makes changes while they're running.
2026-03-11
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Not Just an Upgrade
Choosing to upgrade isn't as simple as many of us would like. Steve has a few thoughts today on the decision to move to a new version of a database server.
2026-03-09
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Why End-User Testing Is Even More Important with AI
I don’t think I’m alone in this frustration, but it crystallized for me recently while trying to do something that should have taken less than two minutes: check in for a flight. What followed was a cascade of app switching and authentication failures. I started in my favorite travel app, moved to one airline app, […]
2026-03-07
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Writing as an Art and a Job
Steve thinks communication is a core sill for technology people, especially in the age of AI.
2026-03-06
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Rollback vs. Roll Forward
Today Steve talks about deployments and whether you should roll forward or roll back.
2026-03-04
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Detecting Issues
How do you detect issues in your systems? Testing? Monitoring? Steve Jones has a few thoughts that we should find ways to do so before our customers.
2026-03-02 (first published: 2017-03-01)
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Blogs
Lift and shift vs modernizing your data warehouse
By James Serra
If you are migrating a data warehouse, there is a question worth asking before...
Power BI Fun With Travels
By Steve Jones
I’m back from a great vacation. I had the chance to visit two new...
DiskANN Experiment — Exploring Entry Points and Graph Neighborhoods
Introduction I was experimenting with vector search in SQL Server 2025 using approximately 3.8...
Forums
Communication, For Incidents and Life
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PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
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Building a Support Ticket Triage Report with IIF() and CHOOSE() in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
PostgreSQL psql Meta Commands: Tables
Which of the following psql meta commands (also called backslash or slash commands) will provide information about tables within a database?
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