As this idea is being born, I am sitting in a dueling piano bar and I have never felt so old ever. And I don’t mean physically. I have only recognized about 1/4 of the songs being played, and everyone just seems younger than me. Even the people I think are older seem younger as […]
2025-04-05
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A SQL DDL statement that Steve never knew about is the subject of today's editorial.
2025-04-04
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DevOps includes the idea of measuring how code flows through your organization and looking for ways to improve your software development process. Steve has a few thoughts on the four main metrics many developments use.
2025-04-02
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GenAI technologies have created a lot of concern among many tech workers. Steve has a few thoughts on how these technologies might impact data professionals.
2025-03-31
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Old habits are hard to change sometimes. Time and again, regardless of what the task or query for information might be, my go-to source of information is Google. Whether on my phone or computer, my muscle memory instinctively opens a browser window or clicks into the search widget and starts typing. My “google foo” has […]
2025-03-30 (first published: 2025-03-29)
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Kubernetes hasn't proved to be as useful to many companies as they expected.
2025-03-28
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Steve has a few thoughts after the end of mainstream support for SQL Server 2019.
2025-03-26
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Should we build modern software as monoliths or microservices? Or something else? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2025-03-24
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I won't even try to hide it. I got a huge kick out of the penguin characters in the animated movie, Madagascar. For those who don't know, they're trying to escape the zoo, but are trying to hide that from anyone discovering it. So, they put up a front, "Smile and wave boys. Smile and […]
2025-03-22
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Code is vulnerable to supply chain attacks, which aren't something many of us think about.
2025-03-21
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In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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