Hack Us
A challenge from United intrigues Steve Jones. How many other companies would make a challenge like this?
2015-05-26
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Editorials
2015-05-25
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Native Audits
This week Steve Jones asks if you're using the SQL Audit feature built into SQL Server.
2015-05-22
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Naming Confusion
The naming of systems and other technological constructs is always a debate within groups. Steve Jones points out a few places where this might actually prevent mistakes.
2015-05-21
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Controlling Alerts
Being on call is not much fun for anyone, but it can certainly be hard on those that receive lots of calls for systemic issues. Are there better ways to manage this?
2015-05-20
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Awareness
This week Steve Jones looks back at the T-SQL Tuesday blog part and its theme of monitoing.
2015-05-18
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Searching for Plans
Would you want a query optimizer that searches for the best plan for your code? Steve Jones thinks this might not be a bad idea.
2015-05-15 (first published: 2010-09-13)
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2015-05-13
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Opening Up Data
Tim O'Reilly, head of O'Reilly publishing, has been an advocate of better date movement in the world. Steve Jones has a few comments on an interview he gave earlier this year.
2015-05-12
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Not Only a Meeting of Minds, but of Open Minds.
In which Phil Factor claims that professional application development requires a broad knowledge base.
2015-05-11
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Blogs
SQL Server 2025 Generally Available
By Brian Kelley
This was announced last week at Microsoft Ignite and it's been covered by others...
Chatting with Power BI: Who Benefits from This Conversation?
By Rayis Imayev
"Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t...
A Quick Look at Redgate Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
Redgate acquired a data modeling tool from Vertabelo recently and I wanted to explore...
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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