The Creepiness of AI
It seems that many companies are implementing AI into their systems. Steve notes that this isn't always a good idea.
2019-03-05
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Editorials
2019-03-04
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2019-03-04
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Schema Security
This week Steve is wondering about the use of schemas for security or other purposes.
2019-03-01
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The RDBMS is Often the Right Tool
Today Steve gives reasons why he thinks the RDBMS is often better than a NoSQL database of any sort.
2019-02-27
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Should the Data Lake be Immutable?
Data warehouses and lakes are often loaded from other data, so should they be immutable?
2019-02-26
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Dealing with Ugly Babies
One thing I learned while working as a database administrator over 17 years is the importance of teamwork across departments. Many times, we have to rely on network and SAN administrator to make changes to their environments in order to make SQL Server run more efficiently. There are times where the storage and network create […]
2019-02-25
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The Employee Target
Will employee data become a target of hackers? It's likely more a movie plot than reality, at least, Steve hopes so.
2019-02-25
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A Good Benefit?
A company is letting companies trade vacation for payments against student loan debt.
2019-02-22
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Treat All Sensitive Data as Important
No matter what the reason you have sensitive information, you need to treat it carefully.
2019-02-21
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Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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