Celebrate Success
Today Grant reminds us to not only think about the things we can do better, but remember the good things that we accomplish.
2019-09-28
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Editorials
Thanking the Volunteers
Grant takes a moment to thank the SQL Saturday organizers that put on these amazing events.
2019-09-27
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Would a Duress Password be a Good Idea?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Should we adopt a duress password, just in case we find ourselves in a movie situation while at work?
2019-09-26 (first published: 2015-04-21)
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The Multi-skilled Developer
Is the DBA a fading star? More likely, there is a general lack of understanding of the roles of the different types of DBA, and of the other IT teams that ensure that successful application developments happen in any large enterprise.
2019-09-25 (first published: 2015-06-08)
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Is Data the Future of the Vibrant Web?
There is a lot of data collected from web browsing. Steve doesn't think we need all that data, unlike Google.
2019-09-24
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Working in Smaller Teams
Steve likes working in smaller teams and has some thoughts on why this is important to him.
2019-09-23
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Using Big Data to Improve Health
With the help of a database that provides fully representative data, we can do a great deal more to advance medical and pharmaceutical science. Phil Factor explains what stands in our way.
2019-09-21
287 reads
A Good Reason to use a VCS
Steve has a good reason to use a version control system. It's a different kind of backup that you might need.
2019-09-19
383 reads
Beware, More Ransomware is Coming
Ransomware has become a large problem in the last few years, and Steve thinks this will continue to increase because of insurance payouts.
2019-09-18
246 reads
What You Should Know About Coding
Today Steve thinks about the skills and approach we ought to be taught before we start building software as a career.
2019-09-17
375 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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