I Want a Database
Gordon Bell works for Microsoft Research and always asks Steve Ballmer for a database. What's wrong with SQL Server?
2009-07-22
138 reads
Editorials
Productive Meetings
It seems that many meetings in corporate settings are wastes of times. Can they be better? Steve Jones has a few ideas that might help make them more productive.
2009-07-21
97 reads
Certification High School
Certifications are being devalued in the IT industry because of cheating and braindumps. Steve Jones thinks we need to re-examine how we view them.
2009-07-20
134 reads
Building Your Brand at Work?
This Friday's poll asks how much you can help yourself while working at your job? Can you build your own brand at work?
2009-07-17
133 reads
Advice for the Unemployed
Everyone has an opinion on the best advice to give an IT person who is unemployed and wants to get back into paid work. Phil Factor outlines what he would advise.
2009-07-16
227 reads
Corporate Hackers
A report says that most of the data lost in corporations is from employees. What can be done about it? Steve Jones thinks we still have work to do in this area.
2009-07-14
94 reads
No Google
Recently Google was unavailable for a good part of one day. Steve Jones felt the impact and thinks this could slow the adoption of cloud computing.
2009-07-13
459 reads
The Worst Advice
We all try to help others with advice, but sometimes we end up doing damage. Steve Jones asks for the worst advice you see given in this Friday poll.
2009-07-10
242 reads
Turning Over Passwords
Would you disclose the password for your online sites to get a job? That was required of applicants in Bozeman, MT until recently. Steve Jones is stunned by this.
2009-07-09
265 reads
Administering Securely
A common request is how can you secure SQL Server data and prevent the system administrator from viewing data. Steve Jones talks a little about the issue and how you can handle it.
2009-07-08
232 reads
Blogs
AI: Blog a Day – Day 6: Embeddings – How AI Understands
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 5 where we covered notebooks, HuggingFace and fine tuning AI now...
The Book of Redgate: Mistakes
By Steve Jones
This is kind of a funny page to look at. The next page has...
ADF Pipeline Debugging Fails with BadRequest – The Sequel
A while ago I blogged about a use case where a pipeline fails during...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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