A Cast of Thousands
In a guest editorial, Rodney Landrum offers a light-hearted guide to role of each member of the cast in a typical SQL code deployment.
2011-08-01
140 reads
Editorials
The Impact of Outages
Steve Jones talks about the problems of outages, and why we ought to perhaps introduce failure into our systems to help us learn to cope with them.
2011-08-01
78 reads
Geeky Distractions
This Friday Steve Jones has a non-work related, but fun poll. Let us know what your geeky media recommendations are this year.
2011-07-29
142 reads
You Can Telecommute
Today Steve Jones tells you can implement telecommuting at your job and gives you a few ideas how to get it approved.
2011-07-28
238 reads
Time for a ROWID?
Steve Jones looks to the future of SQL Server and wonders if we ought to add a rowid to the internal structures.
2011-07-27
232 reads
NewSQL Can Save the World
A new breed of products use the relational model and address the scalability concerns of many RDBMSes. Today Steve Jones talks about NewSQL databases.
2011-07-26
223 reads
Patches for SQL 10 and Techniques for SQL 11
Steve rounds up the patch news for SQL Server this week along with a look forward to the next version of the platform.
2011-07-25
122 reads
Be Reasonable
Be reasonable. That's how Steve Jones thinks managers ought to behave towards their employees.
2011-07-21
157 reads
I Want Stupid Employees
Why don't employers want to fund training? Steve Jones has a few thoughts after a great piece that shows the lack of wisdom in withholding training.
2011-07-20
320 reads
Fitting In
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that talks about fitting in at work and conforming to the expectations of the group and that environment.
2011-07-19
224 reads
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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