The Craziness of Code
Building software can seem like a crazy process, especially to a developer who joins a project.
2022-04-25
264 reads
Editorials
Scripting Makes Mistakes Easier Than Ever
A major outage from Atlassian because of a bad script has Steve thinking about the challenges of recovering from mistakes. When we are making changes to portions of our data and we need to plan for mistakes to occur and ensure we can restore the data.
2022-04-22
188 reads
Using T-SQL over PoSh
When do you choose to use one tool or language over another. Steve discussed T-SQL vs. PowerShell.
2022-04-20
178 reads
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
181 reads
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
90 reads
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
264 reads
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...
Forums
Microsoft Security Changes and SQL Server
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Expanding into Print
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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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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