Secure Programming
Writing secure programs is hard. Steve Jones has a few comments on what some of the issues are with training developers.
2013-10-02 (first published: 2009-03-19)
515 reads
Editorials
The Need for Tape
Are tape systems obsolete? A recent incident has Steve Jones thinking perhaps not.
2013-10-01 (first published: 2009-03-26)
423 reads
Competence trumps a good cultural fit
Phil Factor reflects on how the people who made the industry great, in the past, were often eccentric, rebellious, odd, truculent, but all blessed with the gift of creating wonderful software. Today, such people would struggle to get pass the first interview.
2013-09-30
216 reads
Hybrid Databases
We are getting more and more types of data that we have to manage and store in our databases. Steve Jones notes that SQL Server can handle almost all your needs.
2013-09-30
215 reads
Dating Your Employer
Looking for a new job? Want to pick the best one? Your employer probably feels the same way. Andy Warren talks about how your interview is more like dating than you think.
2013-09-27
362 reads
2013-09-26
286 reads
2013-09-25
188 reads
The Human Cost of Managing Data
There's a cost to managing data that isn't always considered: the human cost. Additional stress, work, and load can result in less than efficient management, even when you contain hard costs.
2013-09-24
141 reads
Citizen Scientists
The increasing power and shrinking size of computing devices means that more and more people can gather and analyze data. Steve Jones talks about some opportunities.
2013-09-23
107 reads
Can SQL Server do ‘Big’?
Can SQL Server scale? Phil Factor has a few thoughts on the capacities that SQL Server can scale to.
2013-09-20
300 reads
Blogs
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...
SQL Server Journey till 2025 (brief)
By Vinay Thakur
Quick Summary for Microsoft SQL Server till 2025, I am fortunate to be part...
Forums
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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...
Azure SQL Database | CREATE EVENT SESSION [Blocking_Capture] ON DATABASE
Hello, Is there a way in Azure SQL Database to change the 'Blocking Process...
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String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
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