2017-05-22
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Editorials
Pseudonymisation
Pseudonymisation is a form of data masking, a technique that becomes more important to data professionals all the time.
2017-05-19
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Data Privacy and Security: The Implications of GDPR
There may be new changes to our jobs as data professionals because of GDPR in the European Union.
2017-05-18
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Array Element by Agonizing Array Element
Iterations and loops are fundamental parts of computer science, but with SQL and PowerShell, we may want different programming paradigms.
2017-05-17
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2017-05-16
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Cracking the SQL Code
Checking for coding style and reviewing code is so much easier when using techniques and tools to help, as long as the tools are your slave, and not your master.
2017-05-15
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The Human Impact of a Capable AI
Computing systems and algorithms continue to improve, especially in the machine learning and AI spaces. What does that mean for us humans?
2017-05-15
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Less QA?
It seems that QA is being cut more and more as software development advances. Is that a good thing? Steve Jones has some thoughts.
2017-05-12 (first published: 2013-07-31)
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What do you do when you have a repetitive task to do?
When faced with repetitive tasks how do you go about doing them in a focused timely manner?
2017-05-11
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2017-05-09 (first published: 2013-08-08)
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
Forums
AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers