A Third Space
We used to work in offices, now we work at home. Do we need a third space? Steve does.
2022-04-18
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Editorials
Constant Azure Improvement
This week I noticed a number of changes in the Azure platform from their change feed. Actually, every week has a crazy number of changes across the entire platform, but this week a number of these were related to data and databases. That isn't always the case, but I saw some interesting items. We have […]
2022-04-16
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Your User Manual
Many of us have spent time looking through manuals or the documentation for some software or product. I know I'm on the MS docs site regularly for work, and there is no shortage of times I've used various manuals to help me fix something around the house. We usually use a manual when we want […]
2022-04-15
126 reads
When to Use Zero
Charts and graphs need a scale to be meaningful. When to include zero in your scale is a question that is more complicated than Steve expected.
2022-04-13
127 reads
Moving Away From MySQL
A developer has some harsh things to see as he leaves the MySQL team. Is he right?
2022-04-11
271 reads
Document yourself out of a job
Some organizations have policies in place to make sure that everything in their IT infrastructure is documented. There are runbooks, procedures, wikis, diagrams, charts, code comments, and more to make sure that knowledge is available if an employee leaves or when disaster strikes. Not only does the documentation exist, but it’s also organized and easy […]
2022-04-09
215 reads
The Backlog
A backlog is important for software development, and Steve has a few thoughts on how to add things to the backlog.
2022-04-08
263 reads
Advanced Incident Response
Having a known and documented incident response plan is important these days, as more and more companies are having security incidents.
2022-04-06
128 reads
Virtual Events Are Here To Stay
This week was the MVP Summit. As was the case for the last couple of years, the event was entirely virtual. We were shown a bunch of new and interesting things by Microsoft. We were able to talk to each other and to the engineers at Microsoft. I'm honored that I've been an MVP and […]
2022-04-02
42 reads
Executing Notebooks in a Stored Procedure
Writing notebooks in Azure Data Studio is a great way to keep a number of queries in one place and execute them together. Steve has a way to do this inside a stored procedure.
2022-04-01
619 reads
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...
Forums
Data Warehouse Toolkit meets Star Schema: The Complete Reference
Is there a good syllabus for reading these two together? (Yes, it's called the...
GPX distance and time analysis in SQL Server
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The DBA is Dead; Long Live the DBA
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Question of the Day
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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