Keeping Unique Aliases
Steve prefers having standards, and today notes that aliases should be included in your standards document.
2020-04-28
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Editorials
Encryption Gets Broken All the Time
There are contests to break encryption algorithms taking place all the time. Another one was completed recently.
2020-04-27
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2020-04-25
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A Remote Work Guide
This week Steve talks a bit about working remotely, which is something more of us are doing these days.
2020-04-24
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2020-04-23
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The Next Data Decade
There are lots of predictions that people make at the start of every year. I've written quite a few over the years, but in 2020 I decided not to make any. After all, there are plenty of other people making them. One person that did make some was Jeff Clarke, COO of Dell. He wrote […]
2020-04-22
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2020-04-21
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The SQL Community Steps up in Time of Need
Healthcare workers are some of the many heroes working bravely in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. To protect themselves and their patients, they must wear face masks during their entire shifts. This causes a great deal of ear irritation, so a strap was designed to make wearing the masks easier and alleviate pressure on […]
2020-04-18
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The Conferences of the Future
With many conferences going virtual, Steve wonders what the future holds.
2020-04-17
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2020-04-16
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Blogs
5 SQL Tricks Worth Remembering Before You Close the Laptop
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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...
Forums
provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
Hello, has anyone here ever provisioned and actually used an MS SQL Server with...
No More Deadlocks
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Five SQL Server 2022 T-SQL Functions You Should Be Using Right Now
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Question of the Day
No More Deadlocks
After detecting deadlocks in SQL Server 2025 and lowering the time threshold for detecting future issues, when does the Database Engine return to the 5s default interval?
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