When I was at the Small Data 2025 conference, one of the speakers was talking about their work with AI technologies. This person uses it a lot in their day job, often to complete tasks that they would have struggled to work on in the past, mostly because of time constraints, but also a lack […]
2026-01-16
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JSON has become a very popular data format used in many software applications. However, it's not magic.
2026-01-14
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SSIS is still in use by many customers. Steve discusses a few changes to SSIS in SQL Server 2025.
2026-01-12
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Many of us aspire to be senior level professionals at some point in our careers, but what separates us from others? Steve has a few thoughts today.
2026-01-09
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2026-01-07
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Today Steve talks about the need for a basic level of security in our software.
2026-01-05
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2026-01-02
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2025-12-31
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2025-12-29
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I'm actually writing this on my day off. I took a bunch of vacation around the holidays because I could, and because I don't take enough the rest of the year. Anyway, I'm just going to share how I've been spending my time (not counting time with the family, which I am certainly doing). I […]
2025-12-27
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By Steve Jones
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The file FDLAUNCHERRORLOG gets created in the default <instance>\MSSQL\Log folder. So far, I've found...
can i use Rowversioncol ( in my database it's synonyme timestamp is used) to...
I have a table with latitude longitude in the format. 45.123456 , -111.123456 ,...
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