Database First or Application First

Today Steve is wondering how you approach coordinating application and database changes. Share which one you deploy first.

Importing Flat Files

Browsing for Instances

How Much AI Code Would You Use?

Today Steve asks the question of how much of your code could be written by GenAI.

Advice I Like: Tipping

When in doubt, overtip – from Excellent Advice for Living This is close to my heart, since I spent a lot of time in college and after working as...

The Changing Nature of Data

The way we look at data is changing, especially when data privacy and protection is considered. Today Steve has some thoughts on address data and the implications for cities as well as databases.

Upgrades to SQL Server 2022

CHOOSE’ing a Beer: #SQLNewBlogger

We recently published an article on CHOOSE at SQL Server Central. I thought it was a good intro, but as someone noted in the comments, how do you use...

Limiting Results with TEXTSIZE in SQL Server: #SQLNewBlogger

There is a SET command in SQL Server that changes how much data is returned from some fields. This short post shows what I learned about the SET TEXTSIZE...

Part-Time DBAs

Remote DBA services can be a boon to your organization, if you use them sparingly.