Balancing Hard and Soft Skills
Today Steve talks about the soft skills and why these might be important as you advance in your career and grow into a senior role.
2019-07-02
534 reads
Editorials
CCPA Preparation
The California Consumer Privacy Act takes effect in a year and there is lots of work to be done. One firm is trying to help companies get ready.
2019-07-01
340 reads
Over-thinking Database Build Scripts
With SQL Server we tend to build databases, when necessary, from one or more build scripts. If making changes to existing versions of the database, we then script the required changes. Usually, a synchronization tool will create a script that can be tweaked to work; although occasionally it will require something more complicated, as when […]
2019-06-29
341 reads
Organisations and Technical Apartheid
Today we have a guest editorial that looks at DevOps and the need for your culture to promote collaboration.
2019-06-28
292 reads
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
233 reads
2019-06-26
180 reads
Spread the Word about Basic Security
This week we have a few back to the basics security comments from Steve.
2019-06-25
437 reads
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
255 reads
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
402 reads
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
444 reads
Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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