GenAI technologies have created a lot of concern among many tech workers. Steve has a few thoughts on how these technologies might impact data professionals.

Finding Out What Changed in a Cumulative Update

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Brent Ozar Blog

Over the last several years, Microsoft has been putting less and less effort into Cumulative Update documentation. We used to get full-blown knowledge base articles about fixes, but these days, we get a collection of footnotes with deceiving hyperlinks that look like they’re going to lead to more information – but they simply lead back to themselves.

Fantasy baseball and old habits

by RyanBooz

SQLServerCentral

Old habits are hard to change sometimes. Time and again, regardless of what the task or query for information might be, my go-to source of information is Google. Whether on my phone or computer, my muscle memory instinctively opens a browser window or clicks into the search widget and starts typing. My “google foo” has […]

Implementing Fuzzy Search in SQL Server Using New Inbuilt Functions

by Utsav Verma

SQLServerCentral

Learn about the new string similarity functions in Azure SQL Database.

The Inefficiencies of Kubernetes

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Virtualization, containers, and k8s

Kubernetes hasn't proved to be as useful to many companies as they expected.

Basic Regex Emulator for SQL Server

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MSSQLTips.com

T-SQL

Regular expressions (REGEX) let you adaptively investigate, employ, and authenticate text data. This makes it easy to search for simple or complex string patters. There is no direct way to do this in SQL Server, but in this article we look at some SQL functions you can create to emulate regex like functionality.

The End of SQL Server 2019

by Steve Jones

SQLServerCentral

Steve has a few thoughts after the end of mainstream support for SQL Server 2019.

Beyond Single-Cloud: A Peek into Multi-Cloud

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SimpleTalk

Cloud Computing

The digital landscape is rapidly evolving, and the question has progressed from whether to adopt cloud technology to how to effectively use it to drive business growth and innovation. Having recognized the power of the cloud in terms of agility, scalability and innovation, organizations are turning their focus to how to get more from their investment. One such consideration is multi-cloud.