2017-07-06
65 reads
Editorial
Independence Day 2017
A holiday in the US has Steve Jones thinking about compromise and communication.
2017-07-04
51 reads
2017-07-03
97 reads
Backup Preparations
This week Steve asks you to make sure you practice your restore skills periodically.
2017-07-03
46 reads
A Database Design Test
Steve Jones saw a database design test for developers, but he's never been given one.
2017-06-30
261 reads
Handling Data Corruption
This week Steve Jones wonders what you might do if you discovered data corruption.
2017-06-29
65 reads
2017-06-28
108 reads
Classifying Sensitive Data
The ability to protect, and perhaps handle, sensitive data separately from other data is becoming more important. Steve Jones discusses the process and asks if it's something you perform on a regular basis.
2017-06-27
67 reads
The Forgotten Editorial
Phil Factor reflects on the occasional benefits of document loss, whether accidental or less so.
2017-06-26
69 reads
Improving Replication
If you have ideas for how to improve replication, Steve Jones is asking for them.
2017-06-26
143 reads
Blogs
Blog a Day – Day 1: History of AI
By Vinay Thakur
it has been a year since i have not written much on the blog...
A New Word: on tenderhooks
By Steve Jones
on tenderhooks – adj. feeling the primal satisfaction of being needed by someone, which...
Ramblings about data communities and your contributions, no excuses
By DataOnWheels
I have been active in the data community throughout my career. I have met...
Forums
Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance can we have data compression = page
I have a quick question on Ola Hallengren Index Optimize Maintenance . Do we...
how do i map the "current" object entry in for each to one variable
hi, in an ssis for each loop over an object variable called MyListVariable, i...
Simulating Mercury’s Orbital Motion Using Pure T-SQL (NASA 2025 Dataset)
SQL Server is typically viewed as a transactional or analytical database engine. However, it...
Question of the Day
String Similarity I
On SQL Server 2025, when I run this, what is returned?
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY('SQL Server', 'MySQL') See possible answers