2014-12-17
585 reads
Editorials
Go Small
The SQL Server community is amazing, and Steve Jones hopes we continue to be close as we grow. He brings light on an idea to grow us larger, but smaller.
2014-12-16
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2014-12-15
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Drop and Recreate
Steve Jones notes that disasters come in all shapes and sizes, but a little prep that you might not have thought of can reduce the scale of the issues.
2014-12-15
189 reads
The Last Job
Steve Jones contemplates employment and the future of the last job he'll have. This Friday he asks you if this might be yours.
2014-12-12
151 reads
Citizen Programmers
Steve Jones finds the Salesforce platform interesting and notes we have lots of "citizen programmers" doing work with data.
2014-12-11
137 reads
Holiday Struggles
The sporadic schedule of a day or two a week this holiday season has been a struggle for Steve Jones.
2014-12-09
172 reads
Software Projects: the important boring bits
Phil Factor on the sort of boring expertise that will help you thrive as a consultant.
2014-12-08
133 reads
We Still Need Human Judgment
Computers aren't necessarily more infallible than humans, and they aren't necessarily even going to make better decisions. We still need humans in the decision process.
2014-12-08 (first published: 2010-06-23)
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What Have You Learned Lately?
Have you learned anything new lately? Steve Jones asks the question after an interesting T-SQL Tuesday.
2014-12-04
157 reads
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?
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