The Changing Landscape of Community
We have a guest editorial today from Mala Mahadevan on the changing data community.
2023-07-03
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Community
Call for Panelists – WIT Panel at PASS Data Community Summit, 2023
Take a moment and submit to be on the WIT panel at the PASS Data Community Summit in Seattle this November. We would like to see more women taking part in this.
2023-06-23
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WIT Engagement Survey For Female Speakers
This is a survey from us at dataplatformwit.com to understand why /how you, as a woman technologist are engaging with community. We ask that women in the data community please fill this out.
2023-04-12
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The Human Factor
A week ago I was in Pasadena attending the SCaLE 20x conference, a gathering of many different open-source communities discussing the technologies and platforms that draw them together. I was fortunate enough to hear some excellent presentations on PostgreSQL and give two talks as well. After the first round of talks on Friday morning a […]
2023-03-18
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Paying It Forward on the Internet
Helping others has been good for Steve's career and he encourages you to do it as well.
2022-09-16
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Celebrating Lives
Steve is asking for others to contribute to the sqlmemorial site for our #sqlfamily.
2021-08-06
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Remembering the Past
We had unfortunately lost quite a few members of our SQL Family. We have a new way to remember them.
2021-01-27
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2021-01-02
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The Wide Impact of PASS
An organization, or an event, is more than just the name and structure. It's mostly the people.
2020-11-21
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Blogs
Advice I Like: Pyramid Schemes
By Steve Jones
If someone is trying to convince you it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s a...
Using Prompt AI for a Travel Data Analysis
By Steve Jones
I was looking back at my year and decided to see if SQL Prompt...
FinOps for Kubernetes: Leveraging OpenCost, KubeGreen, and Kubecost for Cost Efficiency
In the era of cloud-native applications, Kubernetes has become the default standard platform for...
Forums
Database file shrink issue.
Hi experts, I have a 3+ TB database on a 2019 sql server which...
The North Star for the Year
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Multiple Escape Characters
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Question of the Day
Multiple Escape Characters
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):
SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned? See possible answers