The Road to Better Data Handling
As data becomes more valuable and regulations require safer processing, it is important we become more careful in our daily work.
2019-06-27
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Editorials
2019-06-26
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Spread the Word about Basic Security
This week we have a few back to the basics security comments from Steve.
2019-06-25
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Killing FTS
Steve wonders today if the Full-Text Search system in SQL Server is due for a replacement, perhaps with other technologies.
2019-06-24
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Microsoft, Think DevOps First
Steve has a few issues with the design of the Power BI Service and their format for storing reports.
2019-06-22
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Practice Those Scripts
A database script caused a large outage for Salesforce. Steve wonders if you have ideas on how to prevent this type of issue in your environment.
2019-06-21
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Technology Flows Downstream
The technologies that we see in other data platform products sometimes flow to SQL Server.
2019-06-20
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An Alert Philosophy
Many of you reading this will be responsible in some way for managing a system. This might be a test/development system or a production one, but often you want to know how well the system is working. Or maybe you want to know if the system is working at all. Even developers care if their […]
2019-06-19
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SSMS or SSDT
The question this week deals with tools. Steve Jones is looking to see which tools are preferred by most database developers.
2019-06-17 (first published: 2015-03-27)
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Microsoft and Oracle Cloud Partnership
Many of us checked to make sure it wasn’t April Fools Day a couple of years ago when Microsoft announced that SQL Server 2017 would run on Linux. This means that some shops who want to run SQL Server, but not Windows Server, now can. But it also means that SQL Server professionals need to […]
2019-06-15
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Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
Optimism Without Illusion or Why AI Needs Blunt Technologists
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Optimism Without Illusion or Why...
SSIS with VS2022 64/32 issue with Excel files
Hi all, I'm trying to do classic scenario for loading multiple Excel files into...
Case part is sloooooow
Hi So the case statement is slowing this down - but for the life...
Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
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