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This Friday Steve Jones talks performance reviews. The system in place at Microsoft is a tough one, which allows some to thrive, and some not to. Is it one you'd like to have in place?
2012-07-20
218 reads
Editorials
Using Technology In New Ways
An interesting reuse of technology in a completely new way caught Steve Jones' eye. See if you agree that this is rather amazing.
2012-07-19
147 reads
Geeky Books
Today Steve Jones talks about one of his pastimes: reading. He recommends you read more, and share the books you enjoy.
2012-07-18
242 reads
Time Zones
Today Steve Jones complains a bit about time zone support in SQL Server and why it seems so cumbersome. Shouldn't it be easier in 2012?
2012-07-17
306 reads
A Cool Job
Today's editorial was originally published on August 21, 2007. It is being re-run as Steve is traveling. What a cool job it must be to try and tune and get the most performance out of a system.
2012-07-16
163 reads
Write Better Code
Better security can be achieved by writing better code. Steve Jones agrees, but doesn't think it's as easy as it sounds.
2012-07-16
266 reads
Kill a SPID
This editorial was originally published on Sept 5, 2007. It is being re-run as Steve is traveling. Today Steve talks about the potential problems with killing SPIDs in SQL Server.
2012-07-13
316 reads
One Single View
This editorial was originally published on Oct 9, 2007. It is being re-run as Steve is traveling. When I worked at JD Edwards, one of the goals of our business intelligence system was to house a single view of the truth. I recently saw a blog post by Andrew Fryer that does a good job of explaining what this actually is.
2012-07-12 (first published: 2007-10-09)
541 reads
Why It's Good To Be Wrong
Today we have a guest editorial from Hakim Ali. Being wrong is not as bad as you may think.
2012-07-11
452 reads
It's the Journey...
The story of how Shawn McGehee's journey to becoming a DBA started is just one among many thousands, so let's hear yours too!
2012-07-09
144 reads
Blogs
A New Word: Dolorblindness
By Steve Jones
dolorblindness – n. the frustration that you’ll never be able to understand another person’s...
Claude Code Helps Analyze Test Data Manager Log Files
By Steve Jones
I had a customer ask about analyzing their Test Data Manager (TDM) usage to...
PowerPoint to HTML with Claude AI
By Steve Jones
I had an idea for an animated view of a sales tool, and started...
Forums
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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('tim', 'tom')
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