2020-01-02
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Editorials
2020-01-01
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Looking Back at the Decade
Today is the last day of 2019, and the last day of the 2010 decade. I'm still somewhat amazed by the fact that we're entering the 2020s and we still don't really have flying cars. We're well past 2001 and 2010, and still not much space exploration, though the growth in computing power and AI/ML […]
2019-12-31
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2019-12-30
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The New Year: A Chance to Start Over
January 1st is the beginning of a new year thanks to Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII. This date is somewhat arbitrary, and many religions and cultures celebrate their own beginning of a new year at different times. Even though these celebrations don’t fall at the same time, I think the sentiment is similar. The […]
2019-12-28
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The Best DBA Gifts
Today Steve asks if there is anything you'd want as a gift that would make your job better.
2019-12-27
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A Dearth of Data
A new technique developed by Microsoft is designed to help AI/ML models get trained with minimal data.
2019-12-26
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2019-12-25
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Double Check Your Math
Steve notes that math operations are places where many developers have made mistakes in the past. A little test code might help here.
2019-12-23
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Learn to Change
This week Grant talks about the need for change and growth to adapt to the changing world.
2019-12-21
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Blogs
Rolling Back a Broken Release
By Steve Jones
We had an interesting discussion about deployments in databases and how you go forward...
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Forums
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Question of the Day
Lots of FKs
In SQL Server 2025, what are the most outgoing and incoming FK references a table can have?
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