2025-06-11 (first published: 2019-05-24)
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Editorials
Shorten the Debate
Steve talks about the process of decision making with idea for shortening the time taken.
2025-06-09
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Reflecting on the Mythical Man Month
Steve looks back at the Mythical Man Month, a book every software engineer and manager should read.
2025-06-06
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2025-06-04
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Helping Students with a Data Professional Career
Steve has advice for students looking to become data professionals.
2025-06-02
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Deleting a Database
Who among us hasn't deleted a production data file? Steve hopes most of us have not.
2025-05-30 (first published: 2025-05-12)
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Changing the Paradigm of Work
AI is changing work, sometimes for the better, sometimes not. Steve continues to examine and evaluate how GenAI systems might be used in today's world and asks if there is work that might help you.
2025-05-28
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More Linux than Windows
Microsoft announced that Linux runs on more machines in Azure than Windows. Steve isn't surprised and thinks that Linux use will continue to grow.
2025-05-26 (first published: 2019-07-06)
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Developer Time is More Valuable Than Ever
Today, Kendra Little talks about how DevOps adoption affects developer productivity and time.
2025-05-23 (first published: 2020-02-14)
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Does Version Control Scare You
Steve finds a lot of people don't use version control and don't want to learn how to use it.
2025-05-21
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Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
Forums
AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
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Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
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