Challenging Trends
Steve notes the changes in the world might affect how to view and use data in our work.
2022-01-05
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Editorials
Data Cleanup
Steve wishes we could do some data cleanup and archival every year. Or even more often.
2022-01-03
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Education to solve the tech skills shortage
I’ve been teaching T-SQL to groups of students since 2014 at the non-profit LaunchCode in St. Louis. LaunchCode provides free tech training, paid apprenticeships, and career support to hundreds of people who have the ability and interest but not always the opportunity to land tech careers. For example, not having a college degree can eliminate […]
2021-12-31
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2021-12-31
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2021-12-29 (first published: 2017-03-24)
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2021-12-27
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2021-12-25
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2021-12-24
37 reads
Wellness Week
I work for a great company, one that I feel cares about me as more than a "resource", gives me opportunities (with responsibility and accountability), and has some nice benefits. I actually used one of those last week. I get a volunteer day every year, where I can spend time with a charity and get […]
2021-12-22
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The Challenge of Edge Security
We will see databases deployed on the edge, and we will need strong security patches.
2021-12-20
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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...
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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