The Level of Security These Days
How comfortable are you with your password security? Today Steve asks given some data on the various times it takes to crack passwords.
The problem with averages
Everyone learns to calculate an average in school, but, as Joe Celko shows, there are better ways to summarize data.
Why you don’t just buy tools to make DevOps happen
Matt Gordan is next in the hot seat. We discuss how Matt keeps the lights on while overseeing many data related projects and how his team know the more they are plugged into projects, the better support the can offer.
Data and database management in everchanging technology landscape
This article discusses how the cloud and other technologies help companies to manage their data appropriately in the modern world.
How to get DevOps buy-in across your organization
In our latest DevOps 101 Series live webinar Grant Fritchey discusses why the key to successful DevOps implementation is gaining buy-in, and how you can achieve this in your organization.
What is Change Management?
Change manage is a process to prepare an organization to implement change. In this article, Rohan Kapoor explains the five components of change management.
Import Web pages with Power BI
Introduction In this article, we will learn how to create charts from web pages with Power BI. Power BI is an extremely great tool to easily generate reports. We will combine and analyze data from different websites, and we will talk about COVID 19 with the reports. In order to analyze the information, we will […]
Is CosmosDB the One?
CosmosDB is a flexible, powerful database, but is it the best one? Steve has a few thoughts.
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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