Responding to a Disaster
A few recent disasters inspire Steve to remind you to prepare now, before a disaster occurs.
2024-08-02
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Editorials
2024-07-31 (first published: 2019-09-20)
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A Quick Turnaround
Steve has a quick turnaround between trips that was a bit unexpected. Is there compensation for this?
2024-07-29
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We Stink!
You know I have to say something about Crowdstrike. How could I not? Recovery for most people seems to be well in hand, but there are still places dealing with it. I was personally impacted because I was trying to fly home last Friday. While my airline and the airports I was flying through were […]
2024-07-27
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I may need to re-think the use of table variables
Table variables have been fixed in SQL 2019, so now I have to decide if I will use them again.
2024-07-26 (first published: 2018-12-11)
365 reads
Thinking About Technology
Steve is thinking about technology today, inspired by a developer/architect that asks some philosophical and moral questions of software.
2024-07-24
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The Biggest Database Professional Challenges Today
What are the biggest challenges you face today? Steve asks the question and is hoping for a few answers from you.
2024-07-22
199 reads
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
I remember going to the theater over the Thanksgiving holiday in 1987 and seeing Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with Steve Martin and John Candy. My family didn’t often take in the holiday weekend movie releases, but Steve was a family favorite actor already, and friends had given it a good review. Having watched it just […]
2024-07-20
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A Programmer's Attitude
The way we approach development can have a big impact on quality, as well as how smoothly our team works together.
2024-07-19
175 reads
Cloud vs On-premises
Is the cloud better or worse for a workload? One company, BlueSky, has moved on-premises despite their rapidly growing workload.
2024-07-17
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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
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Question of the Day
Squared Values
What happens when I run this code in SQL Server 2022?
SELECT SQUARE('12') See possible answers