Small Leadership
Today Steve Jones talks leadership, and the value it can bring to your team if you display just a little of it.
2015-02-25
140 reads
Editorials
Making Plans
PASS President Tom Larock doesn't make long term plans. Steve Jones doesn't make long term plans. Do you?
2015-02-24
125 reads
The Query Store
This week Steve Jones talks about the query store after an article was released describing it.
2015-02-23
212 reads
Your Tools
In many occupations, workers invest in their own tools. However we rarely do that in technology.
2015-02-19
262 reads
2015-02-18
590 reads
SQL Injection, Still?
We still have problems with SQL Injection. Steve Jones has a few thoughts on why.
2015-02-17
310 reads
2015-02-16
78 reads
Salaries and Experience
Experience matters in setting your salary, but Steve Jones reminds us there are different types of experience, and there's more to life than money.
2015-02-16 (first published: 2010-08-31)
1,095 reads
Starting a New Job
Steve Jones talks about starting a new job and the need to get up to speed quickly, perhaps by being prepared on day 1.
2015-02-12
226 reads
Ship Safe...Ship Often
How can we ship safe, and ship often? Steve Jones has a few comments on the need for better engineering.
2015-02-11
88 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers