No Backdoors
Governments want backdoors built into encryption software, which Steve thinks is a bad idea.
2024-09-23
142 reads
Editorials
2024-09-21
161 reads
Bad Stored Procedures
Stored procedures can be poorly written, but Steve prefers them over embedded code.
2024-09-20
457 reads
When Do We Worry About Scalability?
Steve has a few thoughts on the tradeoff between getting work done quickly and producing well performing code.
2024-09-18
138 reads
2024-09-16
115 reads
2024-09-14
108 reads
A Simple Solution
Today Steve wonders if you have simple solutions you like or complex ones you don't.
2024-09-13
171 reads
Casino Night is Back
Casino Night from SQL Server Central is coming back to the PASS Data Community Summit.
2024-09-11
455 reads
The Invisible Disk
Steve sees disk drives as shrinking to the point of being invisible to most of us.
2024-09-09
333 reads
Knowing What You Don't Know
I used to think I knew everything. I felt like I had the world all figured out. But then, when I went to kindergarten, I realized that I didn't know much at all. As I grew older and finished college, I regained confidence in my knowledge and again felt like I knew everything about the […]
2024-09-07
156 reads
Blogs
Automated SQL Server Benchmarking with HammerDB and Docker: A Complete Testing Framework
I’m excited to announce the release of a new open-source project that fully automates...
T-SQL Snapshot Backups on Availability Group Secondary Replicas
One of my favourite features of SQL Server 2022 was the T-SQL Snapshot Backups....
The Book of Redgate: Hours
By Steve Jones
I have said and written this many times: Redgate Software is the type of...
Forums
AI Experience Gap that we keep talking about
Comments posted to this topic are about the item AI Experience Gap that we...
Squared Values
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Squared Values
I Don't Want To Do XX
Comments posted to this topic are about the item I Don't Want To Do...
Question of the Day
Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
SELECT SQUARE('12') See possible answers