What's Your Code Quality?
Today we have an editorial reprinted from Jan 3, 2006 as Steve is on vacation. What's the quality of your code? Do you measure it? And does it matter?
2011-02-21
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Editorials
2011-02-18
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The Stairway Series
Today we launch a new series of content aimed at providing basic knowledge to people new to a section of SQL Server. Steve Jones comments on the way this series came about.
2011-02-17
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What Sarbanes-Oxley Won't Do
Today we have a reprint of an editorial from Dec 4, 2005 as Steve is on vacation.
2011-02-16
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Data Quality
Today we have an editorial reprinted from Dec 12, 2005 as Steve is on vacation. Steve talks about the hassles of poor data quality and why it can hurt a business.
2011-02-15
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A Variety of Interpretations
This week was T-SQL Tuesday week, the brainchild of Adam Machanic, and hosted by Pat Wright. The theme of Automation produced some very interesting posts. Some of them might inspire you to change the way you tackle the solutions for a variety of problems.
2011-02-14
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Careful Blogging
Today we have a reprint of an editorial from Sept 22, 2005. In this one, Steve Jones reminds you that blogging is a public event and you want to be careful about what you write.
2011-02-14
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Most Work is Mundane
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Work can seem mundane and tedious at times, and today Andy asks you you remain engaged when the work isn't exciting.
2011-02-11
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OldSQL
Support for SQL Server 2005 expires in April. Should you care? Steve Jones thinks it might not be a big deal for many people.
2011-02-10
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You Should Know
Are there things you should know? It seems that we quite often find that others in our profession don't understand the simple things we assume they do. Steve Jones talks about one item in particular: staging servers.
2011-02-09
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Blogs
Claude AI Convinced Me Not to Build an iPad App
By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
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Changing the AG Listener
In SQL Server 2025, if I want to remove an IP from a listener, what do I do?
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