The Developer Arguments for Stored Procedures
Today Steve asks what reasons a developer has for using stored procedures.
2020-03-06
540 reads
Editorials
Is 100% Security Possible?
A security breach at Microsoft is disconcerting, especially when they don't share details.
2020-03-05
290 reads
2020-03-04
344 reads
The Evolution of AI
Artificial Intelligence systems might dramatically change our world, but they need lots of help and work to get better.
2020-03-03
137 reads
What Happened to Hadoop?
For a time, it seemed that everyone wanted to build a Hadoop system. The world has changed, and that's not as popular an idea as it used to be. Today, Steve has a few thoughts.
2020-03-02
536 reads
Automatic Redaction of PII
Amazon is providing automatic redaction of PII data in there transcription service.
2020-02-29
280 reads
Reviewing Your Past Efforts
Today Steve starts a mid year review of his career goals and encourages you to do the same.
2020-02-28
145 reads
Data Orchestration
Steve talks data virtualization in the age of growing data sets and larger workloads
2020-02-27
326 reads
2020-02-26
295 reads
2020-02-25
279 reads
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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