The Other Jobs

This week Steve is asking what jobs you might choose if you had the chance, as well as those you enjoyed, or perhaps dreaded.

Serverless Databases

A new feature for Azure SQL Database: serverless.

Getting the Date

Puzzles–T-SQL Tuesday #114

This month we have a very interesting topic from Matthew McGiffen. He gets back to the roots of the party with code by asking a question on puzzles. It’s...

Where Do You End Up as a DBA?

Steve Jones talks about careers, and where you might take your career over time.

A Clean Values Clause with SQL Prompt

I’ve had this code in a snippet for a long time: I appreciate the markup to prevent SQL Prompt from doing this, which used to always happen. I can’t...

Communicate Smarter Not More

After installing Microsoft Teams, Steve has a bit of communication overload.

Preventing a SELECT

The Mobile Lab

Hardware is the interesting topic of the week for Steve.

Initialize-HgsServiceName Fails in VMWare

A short one, but one that took some digging and debugging and help from others. Saving here, so I remember, as do others. I had a VMWare Workstation v12.x...