Forgoing Tech Investments
SouthWest Airlines had some issues, possibly because of their technical debt and lack of investment.
2023-01-09
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Editorials
2023-01-06
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2023-01-04 (first published: 2022-12-19)
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The Tech That is Gone
As we start a new year, Steve looks back at old technology that doesn't exist anymore.
2023-01-04
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No Time for Testing
Testing software is important, but we always seem to find reasons not to. Steve Jones has a few thoughts about testing.
2023-01-02 (first published: 2015-09-28)
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A New Year, New Efforts
Happy New Year! You're going to be seeing a lot of summaries for 2022 and predictions for 2023 around this time of year. I'm not writing one of those. You'll also see people calling for new years resolutions and the like. I'm not going for that either. Nope, let's keep it simple. It is a […]
2022-12-31
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Looking Back at 2022
This is the last workday of 2022. Next week starts a new year, and as I've often done, I wanted to look back at the year. This time I decided to look back month by month, at some of the headlines and memorable data-related topics. I'm tackling things month-by-month. In January there was a set […]
2022-12-30
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The End of Year Career Evaluation
Steve lists a few things to think about for an end of year career evaluation.
2022-12-28
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2022-12-26 (first published: 2017-02-24)
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2022-12-24
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Blogs
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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