The Pressure to Perform
Steve Jones wonders how things might be different is developers were treated more like salespeople with quotas.
2017-11-22
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Editorials
Avoiding Development Taxes
Anytime we adopt a new technology, framework, platform, language, etc., we will pay a tax in development output.
2017-11-21
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2017-11-20
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2017-11-20
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2017-11-17
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2017-11-15
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Holiday parties: Do you love them or hate them?
It is getting to be that time of year. Holiday parties are you for them or against
2017-11-14
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Microservices in SQL Server
In SQL Server 2017 consuming or providing JSON data is so efficient that you can implement effective microservices right from the database, argues Phil Factor.
2017-11-13
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2017-11-13
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How Long Before You Upgrade?
This Friday Steve Jones wants to know about the lifetime of your instances. Do you have some idea on how long you'll run a particular version of a platform?
2017-11-10 (first published: 2014-04-11)
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Blogs
Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files?
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Dry-run xp_delete_file Before Actually Deleting Files? xp_delete_file doesn’t really have a...
Happy Thanksgiving! (USA Holiday)
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In the United States, today is Thanksgiving. The intent behind the holiday is to...
Getting SQL Server 2025 RTM Running in Containers on macOS
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Forums
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Find all the tables in a database containing particular column value
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Question of the Day
The Ending Substring
In Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2025, if I run this, what is returned?
SELECT '[' + SUBSTRING('Steve Jones', 7) + ']' See possible answers