Liable for Data Loss
Today Steve Jones looks at some data loss lawsuits against Microsoft, but asks the general question of whether software vendors need to be more liable (and careful).
2017-04-17
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Editorials
More Power in Your BI
This week Steve looks at all the information and learning available for Power BI.
2017-04-17
123 reads
The Cost of Database Downtime
Do you know what the cost is for your database going down? Maybe more interesting, is do you want to know?
2017-04-14
144 reads
AI Helpers or Replacements
The future will see more of our data used in machine learning and other AI-like systems. Is that something we want?
2017-04-13
52 reads
The Value of Your Personal Data
Today Steve Jones discusses the idea of data value, and what it might mean to you, personally.
2017-04-12
52 reads
By Design
Just because something works, is it prudent to implement a solution knowing there is a chance this design flaw will be stricken from future revs of SQL Server? It depends.
2017-04-10
75 reads
How do you define employee satisfaction?
This article explores aspects of a job that help one feel satisfied at work.
2017-04-10
97 reads
Staging Deployments
This week Steve Jones is asking if you stage your database changes ahead of application changes.
2017-04-07 (first published: 2012-11-30)
222 reads
Dealing with Supervision
Working with someone that micro-managers you or watches your every action can be hard. Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2017-04-06 (first published: 2013-02-04)
257 reads
How do you go about making a big decision?
This article explores the author's way of making big decisions.
2017-04-04
70 reads
Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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