The Watson Service
IBM's Watson project continues to grow and the latest implementation might be one that affects many of us in our daily lives.
2013-06-11
120 reads
Editorials
No R2
The next version of SQL Server was announced last week and Steve Jones is pleased with the name.
2013-06-10
311 reads
When Windows don’t provide illumination
Microsoft through its various GUIs tries hard to "protect" users from SQL, but Phil Factor argues that we don't need protection from code. We just need a better way to "document" the syntax.
2013-06-10
154 reads
The Decision to Fail
When a disaster occurs, the response from your organization isn't always pre-determined. There are times when you might not want to failover to secondary systems, especially if you don't expect the disaster to last long. How do you decide when to fail over?
2013-06-07
126 reads
Quickly Copy Data
Moving data around can be a challenge as the sizes of our databases grow. Steve Jones talks about some of the challenges and some creative ways you might consider moving data.
2013-06-06
298 reads
Fear Fear
Do you let your fear drive you in how you work with technology? Steve Jones thinks you should be cautious, but not paralyzed.
2013-06-05
144 reads
2013-06-04
164 reads
How Do We Learn?
With a huge increase in the number of online learning frameworks, Dave Convery wonders how comfortable people are with this new way of polishing their skills.
2013-06-03
227 reads
Relying on Algorithms
Today Steve Jones looks at the way software affects the world and how we might be worried about how things might change in the future.
2013-06-03
129 reads
The Bicentennial
Tomorrow is the bicentennial SQL Saturday event. SQL Saturday #200 takes place in Philadelphia, and Steve Jones has some thoughts as he travels to the City of Brotherly Love.
2013-05-31
81 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
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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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