Micro Credentials
Today Steve talks about a new way of achieving some certification and education from Microsoft.
2019-11-13
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Editorials
2019-11-11
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A Big Week for the Data Platform
Steve highlights a few items from a busy Microsoft and SQL Server news week.
2019-11-09
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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
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Predictions for PASS
Steve is missing the PASS opening keynote, but he has a few predictions for the day.
2019-11-06
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Logging Tables
Today Steve Jones looks at the need to log data from an application or process. Are there good and bad ways to design the structures to log information?
2019-11-05 (first published: 2015-09-25)
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2019-11-04 (first published: 2015-11-13)
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A Faster tempdb
I like to call tempdb the “workhorse” of SQL Server. I’ve heard some other people call it other terms that were not so flattering, but since I like to keep things positive, I’ll stick with workhorse. SQL Server uses tempdb for many things. The obvious uses are temp tables and table variables, but tempdb is […]
2019-11-02
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A Mindset Shift
Microsoft has grown and changed their culture in the last few years, which greatly impresses Steve.
2019-11-01
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Respect
By Steve Jones
“Don’t aim to have others like you; aim to have them respect you.” –...
Blue Sky Programming – The Optimism Trap
Many years ago, before I joined Oracle, I was working on a major modernisation...
Setting Up a Mac for Data Engineering and AI Work
If you work with data pipelines, SQL, notebooks, or machine learning models, a Mac...
Forums
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
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DBCC CHECKDB Limits I
When running DBCC CHECKDB on SQL Server 2025, can I include the Resource Database?
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