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
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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
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A developer has some harsh things to see as he leaves the MySQL team. Is he right?
2022-04-11
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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
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A backlog is important for software development, and Steve has a few thoughts on how to add things to the backlog.
2022-04-08
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Having a known and documented incident response plan is important these days, as more and more companies are having security incidents.
2022-04-06
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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
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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
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2022-03-30
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There are many ways to work more efficiently, but tracking and saving your work might be one of the best.
2022-03-28
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On SQL Server 2025, does DBCC CHECKDB support Memory-Optimized tables?
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