Monitoring for Non Existent Events
Many DBAs monitor for those events they expect to happen, either successfully or failed. However many DBAs wouldn't be aware of an event never occurring.
2018-02-28 (first published: 2014-07-31)
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Editorials
2018-02-26
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What Counts for a DBA – Inspirations
In order to be great, you need to have an idea what great is. A quote I use in every one of my database design presentations is by one of my non-technical inspirations, C. S. Lewis. The quote is from his book, An Experiment in Criticism. “There are no variations except for those who know […]
2018-02-26
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Build a Career Radar
A technology radar can help you assess what's important and where to focus your effort. Companies use these, and Steve Jones says you should as well.
2018-02-23
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An AI Loophole
We can't always explain how AI systems work. Steve Jones wonders if this is a loophole in the GDPR legislation.
2018-02-22
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Brush Up on Your ETL Skills
The need for data imports, exports, and transformations seems to be growing.
2018-02-21
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2018-02-20
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Building Culture
The origins of PASS have shaped its culture for years. Are you doing the same in your organization?
2018-02-19
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Template Configuration
Extended Events is a much more complex system and profiler, and the use of templates can reduce the complexity
2018-02-16
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Muddle Through
Perseverance and continued effort, even when you lack knowledge or skill is extremely valuable for a technology professional.
2018-02-15
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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
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Dynamic Unpivot
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Writing as an Art and a Job
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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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