Generating Art
Using metadata to drive software is very useful, which means that having clean data and lots of metadata can help create better software.
2021-03-30
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software development
How Quickly We Forget
One of the interesting things about modern software is how updates are handled.
2021-03-29
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2021-03-25
140 reads
UX Matters
User interface is a part of software development that many technical people pay little attention to during the process of building something. However, it can be a problem for your customers.
2021-02-25
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Do it. Try it. Fix it.
Building better software requires some experimentation, but also some learning. Building better software as an organization requires even more.
2021-02-04
277 reads
Cutting Edge Technology
Cutting edge technology might vary for many people, and Steve wonders what you think.
2021-01-29
101 reads
The Responsibility for Bugs
Today Steve wonders who should be responsible for software bugs, something of which we have no shortage of in our industry.
2021-01-11
96 reads
Practice Your Skills with the Advent of Code
The annual Advent of Code challenge is underway, and you can use it to help grow your career.
2020-12-08
216 reads
A Technology Collapse
Today Steve looks at legacy systems and the challenges they pose as we try to adapt them to new requirements.
2020-12-05
187 reads
2020-11-23
101 reads
Blogs
How to find free space in Azure PosgreSQL
I wanted to figure out how big (or approximately how big) my dump file...
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
Announcing SQL Server 2025
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Question of the Day
Running Steve's Code
Can you run this code in any of your SQL Server 2019 databases without error?
CREATE OR ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[StevesAmazingProc]
AS
SELECT Consumer_ID ,
Trend_Category ,
Bit_Trace
FROM NewWorldDB.dbo.MarketTrend;
GO See possible answers