Stuck in a Rut
What do people do when their job doesn't require a lot of technical skills? Steve Jones has a few thoughts.
2014-10-29
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Editorials
Triple Digits
Salaries for data professionals have risen quite a bit, according to the latest salary survey. That's good for those of us working with SQL Server.
2014-10-28
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Managers: who needs them?
Managers, look away now. Patrick Index wants to get something off his chest...
2014-10-27
336 reads
When is 8000 too small?
Over the years the page size in SQL Server has changed, growing larger to fit larger data sets. However not all functions have been modified to work with larger page sizes. Or even exceed them. Steve Jones wonders if it's time to increase the page size.
2014-10-23 (first published: 2010-02-11)
401 reads
Why Would You Move?
Most people prefer to work with the platforms that they are familiar with, but there is always pressure to try new, exciting technologies when others have success. Steve Jones explores the idea of switching platforms.
2014-10-20
176 reads
It's about Perception
What's the most important thing about your application? The code? The accuracy of its calculations? The layout of the reports? Steve Jones has another opinion.
2014-10-17 (first published: 2009-12-09)
217 reads
Who Watches the Watchers?
Who checks on those who manage our systems? Is there auditing in place for those accidental DBAs?
2014-10-16 (first published: 2009-12-03)
338 reads
Document, then Install
Should we declare what we want installed and then have every instance configure itself? Steve Jones talks about the need to ensure we know what is running before we install rather than documenting it afterwards.
2014-10-13
125 reads
Fun Data Analysis
This week Steve wants to know if you'd have some issues when analyzing data and you've mistaken correlation for causation.
2014-10-10
182 reads
Continuous Delivery for Windows?
It seems as though Microsoft might be moving to a Continuous Delivery process for Windows 10. Steve Jones isn't sure that's a good thing, but it is interesting.
2014-10-09
99 reads
Blogs
10 Things I Hate About Fabric Deployment Pipelines— And Some Alternatives
Fabric deployment pipelines look like they solve CI/CD for Fabric content, especially for people...
The Book of Redgate: Evidence
By Steve Jones
We aren’t the only company that does this, but Redgate Software does try to...
When Your Microsoft Fabric Capacity Runs Out: Optimize, Scale Up, Scale Out, or Isolate?
By James Serra
Microsoft Fabric makes it wonderfully easy to put many analytics workloads on one platform....
Forums
The New World Of AI Robots
Comments posted to this topic are about the item The New World Of AI...
Logic question in a WHERE clause using IIF?
Thanks in advance, I'm trying to avoid using IIF for performance reasons, but the...
Execute as failure
Security has long been a problem for me. Every time I think I understand...
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BIT_COUNT() V
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