Who Built This Thing?
Do the people that build SQL Server really work with it? Steve Jones shares a short story from a recent trip to the Pacific Northwest.
The Best Way to Find Quality People
How can you find good employees? Steve Jones offers a few tips on what has worked for him in the past.
The Best Way to Find Quality People
How can you find good employees? Steve Jones offers a few tips on what has worked for him in the past.
The Best Way to Find Quality People
How can you find good employees? Steve Jones offers a few tips on what has worked for him in the past.
Database Weekly Update for May 19, 2008
Steve Jones looks at the performance of column changes, petaflop computing, and a few ways to beef up your DBA skills.
The Database Weekly Update for May 19. 2008
Steve Jones looks at the performance of column changes, petaflop computing, and a few ways to beef up your DBA skills.
A Worthwhile Goal
Steve Jones talks about two competing priorities for many people that start at a new job and asks which one you value more in this Friday poll.
Everybody Reports to Somebody
One of the very common questions posted about T-SQL is how to traverse a hierarchy in a set based manner. New author Craig Hatley brings us his techniques for handling the common scenario of employees and managers.
Recursive Queries in SQL:1999 and SQL Server 2005
How many of you have written resursive queries in SQL? Or any language since school for that matter? Not many people write recusrive queries because of the complexity, the difficulty to understand how they work, and the chance for heap overflows. However, SQL Server 2005 implements Common Table Expressions and recursion in a way that is much easier to code and incorporates some safeguards. New author SQL Server MVP Frederic Brouard has written a fantastic article looking at resursive queries.
SQL Server T-SQL in 10 Minutes
A short review of this book by Ben Forta giving you the basics of T-SQL
Blogs
Webinar: Navigating the Database Landscape in 2026
By Steve Jones
For a number of years, we’ve produced the State of the Database Landscape report,...
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By Steve Jones
I coach volleyball and I do a lot of stat stuff on paper. I...
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Forums
Transactional Replication setup issue
Hi! I've been banging my head against the wall for 2 days now trying...
The Power of Data and Privacy
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What's the Date?
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Question of the Day
What's the Date?
In SQL Server 2025, there is a new function that returns the current date without the time. What is it?
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