2019-06-14 (first published: 2015-05-19)
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Editorials
Are We Suckers?
This week Steve Jones wonders if we work too much. Do we give more to our employers than they give to us?
2019-06-11 (first published: 2015-12-18)
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Setting Session Skill Levels
Kathi Kellenberger discusses the challenge of deciding how to describe the content in the sessions she presents.
2019-06-10
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Building or Buying Analytics
One of the decisions that I've been involved with at the beginning of every software project is whether to buy software to solve the problem or build our own. This might be a quick "is there software anyone knows about to do this?" query, or an in-depth review of the marketplace or something in between. […]
2019-06-08
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Microsoft Exercise
We have got a deal for you, Microsoft is concerned about the health of your company and is doing something about it.
2019-06-07 (first published: 2015-04-27)
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Cloud Pace
There are a couple big changes that the cloud brings to us. Steve has a few comments today.
2019-06-06
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The Worst Comments
Comments in code can be tricky, but certainly some are better than others. What are your bad examples?
2019-06-05 (first published: 2015-03-13)
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Monitoring After Deployment
This Friday's poll looks at the time after deployment. Can you tell if things were successful? Do you have a formal way to determine if the changes are causing issues?
2019-06-04 (first published: 2015-04-17)
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Databases made for Ops, not 'Oops!'
Just as you write a unit test before writing the code, so you must devise the means to monitor a database, to ensure its smooth operation, before creating the database.
2019-06-01
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Mastery – Repetition, Variations, and Depth
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy look sat the ways in which we might solve problems and become better over time.
2019-05-31 (first published: 2015-03-25)
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Blogs
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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