Should He Stay or Should He Go?
Read the first page of the linked article and then cast your vote in this Friday's poll.
2013-08-16 (first published: 2008-09-26)
553 reads
Editorials
Who Wants to Be Rich?
With all the concern over the economy lately, Steve Jones talks about about finances and tries to bring perspective to those of us in the real world.
2013-08-15 (first published: 2008-10-20)
409 reads
Lossy data and incorrect data
Your copier could change data when creating an image. Phil Factor has some words of caution.
2013-08-14
206 reads
Patch Problems
A few recent Patch problems have Steve Jones concerned about the directions we are going with software.
2013-08-13
163 reads
2013-08-12
122 reads
Review Your Code
Steve Jones notes that SQL Injection is still a problem, and while it might be for some time to come, we should not be adding to the issues. Learn how to write secure code.
2013-08-12
541 reads
Would You Choose SQL Server?
This Friday Steve Jones has a poll asking how you feel about SQL Server for your own projects, or even your company's projects. Is it a given you'd use SQL Server?
2013-08-09
270 reads
The Standard Limitation
SQL Server Standard Edition only supports 64GB of RAM and it's our fault. Or is it, and is this a reasonable number? Steve Jones has a few thoughts today.
2013-08-07
410 reads
Separation of Duty
We want to ensure that the data we gather accurately reflects the state of some system or event. The analysis should decide how we interpret the data gathered. Neither should influence the other.
2013-08-06
134 reads
DEF CON SQL
An impromptu hacking session, in response to an inexplicably-changed password, reminds Rodney Landrum of some valuable lessons for every DBA.
2013-08-05
126 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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