State v Migrations
Steve Jones talks a bit about the difference between state based and migrations based approaches for deployment.
2018-06-18 (first published: 2015-04-09)
171 reads
Editorials
More Query Tuning?
What types of sessions are important in a conference schedule? Steve Jones talks a bit about the lack of tuning sessions.
2018-06-15
98 reads
Building Test Data
Steve talks about the importance of test data and how to get it in development environments.
2018-06-14
74 reads
2018-06-13
95 reads
Machine Learning in the Database
Steve talks about Machine Learning Services in SQL Server and whether using this is a good idea.
2018-06-12
181 reads
Be Prepared with Baselines
Analyzing performance often requires you to understand what is normal and what is not. Steve talks about the importance of baselines.
2018-06-11
78 reads
2018-06-11
160 reads
Better Comments
Is there a best way to comment code? Or maybe just different styles. Steve Jones asks what you think today.
2018-06-08
107 reads
2018-06-07
86 reads
2018-06-06
165 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
Question of the Day
BIT_COUNT() V
What does this return on SQL Server 2025?
select bit_count(null)See possible answers