2019-11-26
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Editorials
Azure Sphere
The Azure Sphere project is a great piece of research at Microsoft that might help us data professionals with security.
2019-11-25
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2019-11-23
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DR Priority
Today Steve asks about HA and DR. What compromises and choices do you make in your environment and how do you ensure your clients can get to their data.
2019-11-22
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2019-11-21
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The Conference Springboard
The period after a conference is a good time to start driving yourself forward.
2019-11-20
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2019-11-19
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2019-11-18
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Human frailty and the custodianship of data
Until you open the box your data is, like Schrödinger's cat, both safe and breached.
2019-11-16
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Agile Job Descriptions
Steve ends his week of career thoughts with a look at the job descriptions that we often use to decide if we want to apply for a job.
2019-11-15
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers