One System to Rule Them All
Can a single piece of software work well for most situations? Steve Jones wonders if we're not attacking the problems of large software applications in the right way.
2014-08-13
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Editorials
The Brittleness of Replication
Replication is a great feature in SQL Server, but it seems brittle. When things go wrong, they break quickly, and often severely. It seems that we have many features like this in SQL Server that are useful and handy, but receive very little attention as versions are released.
2014-08-12
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Data is Not Always Enough
More data is better, but Steve Jones notes that even that isn't always enough to make decisions count for your organization.
2014-08-11
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We Don't Care about Data and IT Security
Most of us say we care about IT and data security. Our actions speak differently.
2014-08-11
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2014-08-08
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2014-08-06
683 reads
Getting It Right First Time. Almost?
Mistakes happen but how can we minimize them and deal with them whey they do happen?
2014-08-05
215 reads
A DBA at the Opera
In opera, tragedy or absurdity happens because the characters are incapable of standing back, and making a difficult decision. Instead, at every stage, they just drift towards their fate by taking the easy option. Don't let the same fate befall you, as a DBA.
2014-08-04
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Using Views
Views can be a great way to abstract away details for clients, but they can also make development much more flexible.
2014-08-01
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2014-07-29
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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...
Forums
SQL Server 2022 order by bug?
Hi, I was using order by on a column with characters and saw something...
SQL Server 2025 Build List
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Filtered Indexes: The Developer’s Secret Weapon in SQL Server
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Question of the Day
Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
sqlcmd -S localhost -EAt the command line, I run these two commands:
SELECT ORIGINAL_DB_NAME() GOWhat is returned? See possible answers