Less Junior Staff
One of the strange side effects of AI might be junior staff struggle to get hired and get experience. Where does that leave the industry when senior staff retires?
Days of the Week, Bitwise Edition
I recently had to help support synchronization and distribution of workloads between multiple servers.
Outside Interests
I'm a little excited because tomorrow I'm going to my first maker's faire. I'll be volunteering with our local radio club (100 year old, W5IAS, oldest radio club in Oklahoma). In addition, I'll be showing off a few controller chips & Raspberry Pis that I use with my radios for APRS, satellite tracking, and digital […]
Iteration and Conditional Activities in Azure Data Factory
Learn about the different iterator activities in Azure Data Factory.
Your Computer Science Education
Steve wants to know how and what you learned about computing, as well as what was missing.
5 Ways to Spend Your 2024 Learning and Development Budget in the US
Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at our discretion. This is something I encourage you to negotiate when you are considering a job or at your annual review. We all need to learn and a budget signifies your boss cares about you.
SQL Local Variables and Performance Issues
In this article, we examine the effect of local variables on T-SQL queries and how these could potentially cause performance issues.
A New and Improved Data Warehouse: Data Engineering with Fabric
In this next installment, John performs the research you might do if your management asked you to examine Fabric.
Do You Have the Gifts to Be a DBA?
This editorial was originally published on Jul 13, 2019. It is being re-run as Steve is out of town. I recently had the pleasure of catching Paul McCartney in concert, and he was amazing. I have been a fan forever and have heard him tell the same stories he over and over with great delight. […]
Auditing SQL Server – Part 3 – SQL Server Configuration Audit
This section gets into detailed SQL Server configuration details. This is less relevant in a cloud environment, but there are still items to confirm.
Blogs
Local LLM Models at SQL Saturday Boston 2025
By Steve Jones
I’m starting a long trip at Boston this weekend. I’ll be there Saturday speaking,...
3 things you must do to start data quality management right
As a data & AI strategist who’s seen countless projects succeed and fail, I...
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server
By SQLPals
Set Theory vs. Batch Mode in SQL Server Not long ago,...
Forums
SSC Website Deployment 24 Sept 2025
We are planning on a fairly big code deployment to set the stage for...
Timeout when expanding the table
Experts, I am hoping to get some help and feedback. I have a server...
Single User SQL Server on Linux
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Question of the Day
Single User SQL Server on Linux
How can I start SQL Server on Linux in single-user mode to restore the master database?
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