Requiring Technical Debt Payments
Steve found someone using an interesting approach to get developers to address some technical debt.
2025-09-08
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Editorials
2025-09-06
133 reads
Guidelines and Requirements
We have some requirements that we meet a particular setting or value, but often we have guidelines and recommendations. Do you know the difference?
2025-09-05
83 reads
Concerns over AI Chat Privacy
Many of the GenAI services are using the free model of the past, where they use your data in ways you might not expect. Now, a court is ensuring OpenAI keeps your chat data around.
2025-09-03
100 reads
How Much Can You Learn?
This Friday Steve Jones wonders about the upper limits for what you may learn in a year.
2025-09-01 (first published: 2016-04-08)
258 reads
Data Sovereignty in the Cloud
Steve has a few thoughts on the lack of data sovereignty in the cloud, with an outlook that isn't very positive.
2025-08-29
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2025-08-27
192 reads
2025-08-25 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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Why Tech Events Matter for Data Pros (and why I’m grateful)
I just got back from the Redgate Summit events in New York City, where I had the chance to present, swap stories, and nerd out with a lot of brilliant data folks. I came home energized… and then promptly slept for 14 hours on Thursday. That’s the best kind of exhaustion in my book. The […]
2025-08-23
52 reads
Your Favorite Improvement
This Friday Steve asks about what you're looking forward to in SQL Server 2025, if anything.
2025-08-22
109 reads
Blogs
Learn Better: Pause to Review More
By Brian Kelley
If you want to learn better, pause more in your learning to intentionally review.
Azure SQL Managed Instance Next-Gen: Bring on the IOPS
By John
If you’ve used Azure SQL Managed Instance General Purpose, you know the drill: to...
SQL, MDX, DAX – the languages of data
By DataOnWheels
Ramblings of a retired data architect Let me start by saying that I have...
Forums
Two foreign keys to the same table. Can't cascade deletes.
Not sure if this is really a relational theory question but it seems about...
Connecting Power BI to SSAS and effective user not working
Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
High Availability setup - has anyone seen this method?
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Question of the Day
Encoding URLs
I have this data in a SQL Server 2025 table:
CREATE TABLE Response ( ResponseID INT NOT NULL CONSTRAINT ResponsePK PRIMARY KEY , ResponseVal VARBINARY(5000) ) GOIf I want to get a value from this table that I can add to a URL in a browser, which of these code items produces a result I can use? See possible answers