Where's the Unit Testing?
Today Steve Jones wonders why we don't unit test more, especially for databases.
2016-07-25
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Editorials
How do you know when it is time to leave a job?
Today we have a guest editorial from Ben Kubicek as Steve is traveling out of town. I discovered I had stayed at a job about two years too long. Why was that?
2016-07-22
198 reads
The Relentless Cloud
The march to the cloud is ongoing and Steve Jones says you should prepare yourself. Even if your company doesn't move.
2016-07-20
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Scary Deployments
Today Steve Jones talks about the problem of having code that people are afraid to change or deploy.
2016-07-19
123 reads
Security is Getting Serious
Today Steve Jones notes that back doors could be inserted into chips, which would be a huge problem.
2016-07-18
90 reads
The Remote DBA
This Friday, Steve Jones asks if you're like to work remotely. With the trend moving this way, mostly for extra hours, maybe you'd like to move that way for most of your work time.
2016-07-15
194 reads
Losing Rows
MongoDB can lose some rows in queries run very close together. Is that bad? Steve Jones thinks so, though this doesn't mean you shouldn't use MongoDB or any other NoSQL database.
2016-07-13
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2016-07-12
192 reads
New Mobile Attack Vectors
With many mobile phones containing malware, Steve Jones notes this could be a problem for data professionals.
2016-07-11
49 reads
The Need for Database Intelligence Software
A brief editorial on future database engines having built in intelligence.
2016-07-08
176 reads
Blogs
Getting SQL Server 2025 RTM Running in Containers on macOS
SQL Server 2025 RTM is here, and if you’re running Docker on macOS, you...
The PASS Data Community Summit 2025 Recap
By Steve Jones
It’s Monday. I’ve been home since Fri night, but with a busy weekend, I’m...
Microsoft Post-Quantum Crypto APIs Are Now Generally Available
By Brian Kelley
I mentioned this in my talk on Quantum Computing at the PASS Data Community...
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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