Absolutely (Not?)
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones asks about what absolutes you might have in your job.
Auditing data changes in your production environment is very important, especially if you are dealing with confidential information.
I'm designing a table and I've decided to create an auto-generated primary key value as opposed to creating my own scheme or using natural keys. I see that SQL Server offers globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) as well as identities to create these values. What are the pros and cons of these approaches?
Agile, or maybe even hyper-agile. Steve Jones talks about some challenges in the web 2.0 world.
When a project is completed, one of the next steps is to roll this project out to the production environment. However a good rollback process is important to ensure that you can remove those changes if there are problems. Longtime author David Poole talks about how he handles this.
Steve Jones talks about virtualization with databases, but not in the way you might think.
Steve Jones talks about virtualization with databases, but not in the way you might think.
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By Steve Jones
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By Steve Jones
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Hi everyone, Below is a consolidated summary of what we validated Architecture & data...
Hi all, I recently moved to a new employer who have their HA setup...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Semantic Search in SQL Server...
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