Passwords Under Pressure
Passwords are a problem, especially when we're in a hurry. What should we do?
2016-08-01
93 reads
Editorials
How Far Have You Traveled for a SQL Saturday?
This Friday Steve Jones talks SQL Saturdays and asks how far you've traveled to attend one.
2016-07-29
110 reads
Too Much Information for Sports
Gathering too much data isn't always helpful, and doesn't necessarily help you make better decisions. However, that's up to you to decide how much is too much.
2016-07-28
83 reads
Learning to Search
Today Steve Jones notes that the ability to search if invaluable as the amount of information, or even objects, we deal with grows.
2016-07-27
97 reads
A Buggy Release
Releasing software is stressful, and as Steve Jones notes today, can cause bankruptcy if you don't have a solid process.
2016-07-26
105 reads
2016-07-25
81 reads
Where's the Unit Testing?
Today Steve Jones wonders why we don't unit test more, especially for databases.
2016-07-25
128 reads
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
217 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
112 reads
Scary Deployments
Today Steve Jones talks about the problem of having code that people are afraid to change or deploy.
2016-07-19
142 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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