2019-11-18
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Editorials
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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Data Science, BI, and Reports
Business Intelligence and Data Science are linked, and complementary. As Steve notes, both can help your organization make better decisions based on data.
2019-11-14
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Micro Credentials
Today Steve talks about a new way of achieving some certification and education from Microsoft.
2019-11-13
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2019-11-11
347 reads
A Big Week for the Data Platform
Steve highlights a few items from a busy Microsoft and SQL Server news week.
2019-11-09
234 reads
The Network Bottleneck
Computer networks are critical for our work, but if they get clogged with new types of data, we might have a problem.
2019-11-08
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2019-11-07
226 reads
Predictions for PASS
Steve is missing the PASS opening keynote, but he has a few predictions for the day.
2019-11-06
167 reads
Blogs
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO
By SQLPals
SQL Server instance metadata inventory with PowerShell and SMO The purpose...
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...
Forums
Celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, A Thank you message
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provisioning sql server via VMware Cloud Foundation
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No More Deadlocks
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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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