How Do You Setup Your Instances?
This week Steve wonders if you have a process for setting up your new instances.
2018-09-14
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Editorials
We Don't Have Perfect Information
Trying to pick the perfect schedule at a conference is fraught with issues.
2018-09-12
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2018-09-11
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Is Forgiveness Possible?
Recently, there was a prominent film director fired from directing an episode in a very entertaining and profitable movie franchise. His firing was for tweets he made that were in very bad taste. And bad doesn’t begin to cover it, they were about topics that were universally despicable. What made this interesting was not that […]
2018-09-10
63 reads
The Hybrid Cloud
There are lots of options with cloud providers and hybrid versions of public and private clouds might be the best solution.
2018-09-10
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College Degrees Shouldn't Be Required for Tech Jobs
Today we have a guest editorial from Kendra Little that talks about the requirements you may have for potential employees.
2018-09-07
158 reads
What is the best way to on-board (train) a new junior employee?
It is important to train new people, so what is the best way to go about doing it?
2018-09-06
364 reads
Back Yourself Up
Ever thought about yourself as a resource that should be backed up to minimize your loss?
2018-09-05
99 reads
I Feel Like a Magician
Something sufficiently complex, in our eyes, may appear to be magic. Steve Jones feels some of his knowledge about SQL Server looks the same way to others.
2018-09-04 (first published: 2015-07-06)
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2018-09-03
62 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
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...
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?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers